226 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 6:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-23, toms through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-50, ride through bars 51-54 and snare through bars 55-58, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 156-158, 160-162 and 164-166, and 3 more places -- 6.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
156
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---------------x-----------------------x-------|
HF |g-------g-------g-------g-------g-------g-------|15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 24, 25, 33, 54, 58 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
132 BPM, in 4/4, 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
226 bars, about 6:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 24 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.
15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 24, 25, 33, 54, 58 and 17 more.