246 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-53, snare through bars 54-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-61, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-51, 56-58 and 60-61, and 12 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 62 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
246 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 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.
16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 62 and 39 more.