161 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-31, ride through bars 32-39, hi-hat through bars 40-47, ride through bars 48-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-103, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-42, 44-46 and 88-90, and 7 more places -- 18.2% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
156 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 21 more.