336 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 7:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-33, ride through bars 34-37 and snare through bars 38-41, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 92-106, 110-122 and 232-238, and 4 more places -- 27.4% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|23 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 84 more.
It cuts the song into 67 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.
175 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
336 bars, about 7:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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.
23 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 84 more.