139 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and ride through bars 43-50, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 6 more places -- 25.4% 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 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x-x-x---|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x-----xx--x-x---|4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 34, 46, 50 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
185 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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.
4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 34, 46, 50 and 10 more.