194 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-20, silence through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-27, 77-81 and 169-171, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
23 24
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
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BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----------x-----|------x-----x-----------------------x-----------|4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 66, 128 and 190.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
160 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
194 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 66, 128 and 190.