99 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-22, snare through bars 23-29, toms through bars 30-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-38, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 11-13, and 8 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|15 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 49 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
160 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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 55 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 49 more.