180 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 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.
ride through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43 and ride through bars 44-51, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 20-22, and 8 more places -- 27.9% 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---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 15, 23 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
180 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 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.
18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 15, 23 and 31 more.