182 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-41, ride through bars 42-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-55 and silence through bars 56-58, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 27-29, and 11 more places -- 31.1% 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---|
BD |xxx---x-x-------|12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 26, 42, 47 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
196 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
182 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 26, 42, 47 and 19 more.