264 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, ride through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-97, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-71, 73-78 and 81-87, and 1 more place -- 10.5% 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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CC |------------x---|
HH |o-------o-------|
SD |x---------------|
BD |------------x---|27 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 60 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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.
200 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.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
264 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 25 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.
27 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 60 more.