148 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-42, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 61, and 4 more places -- 8.7% 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...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
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BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 14, 20, 26, 40, 43, 44 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
155 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 14, 20, 26, 40, 43, 44 and 8 more.