153 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and snare through bars 34-41, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 16 more places -- 16.8% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|25 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 16, 17, 21 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
180 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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.
25 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 16, 17, 21 and 36 more.