218 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, snare through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-43, ride through bars 44-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-99, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-15 and 59, and 11 more places -- 10.6% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|16 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 38, 39 and 71 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.
190 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
218 bars, about 4:35 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 and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
16 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 38, 39 and 71 more.