168 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27 and snare through bars 28-29, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82, 84 and 86, and 7 more places -- 6.1% 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---g---g---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x-x-|23 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 85 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
169 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 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.
23 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 85 more.