268 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 6:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-38, toms through bars 39-40, ride through bars 41-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 11.2% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x-------x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-x-----x-------x---|19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 47, 56 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 83 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.
170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
73 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.
268 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 23 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.
19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 47, 56 and 26 more.