173 bars at 180 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-57, snare through bars 58-59 and ride through bars 60-67, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-13 and 26-28, and 17 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 57, 59 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
173 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 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.
11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 41, 57, 59 and 11 more.