125 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, snare through bars 22-26, silence through bars 27-29, hi-hat through bars 30-52 and snare through bars 53-58, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 59-60, 63-64 and 84-85, and 3 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
59 60
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |------------------x-----------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
SD |------------x--------x-----x--------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 29, 57, 58 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.
12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 29, 57, 58 and 16 more.