87 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, toms through bars 17-21, ride through bars 22-25, toms through bars 26-28 and ride through bars 29-37, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 29, and 7 more places -- 14.9% 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.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---x-------x-----------x---|12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 26, 27, 30, 32, 34 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
174 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
87 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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.
12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 23, 26, 27, 30, 32, 34 and 19 more.