231 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 7:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-26, snare through bars 27-29, ride through bars 30-34, snare through bars 35-36, toms through bars 37-39 and snare through bars 40-52, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 136-138, 140-142 and 144-146, and 4 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
136 137
1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x---------x-|------------x-----------|
BD |x-x---x---x-------x-----|x-----x---x-------x-x-x-|19 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 more.
It cuts the song into 77 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
90 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
231 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
19 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 more.