180 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 2-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35, ride through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-55, snare through bars 56-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-87, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 25 more places -- 16.1% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxx-----x---x-|13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 27, 31, 35, 39, 41 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
180 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
180 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 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.
13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 27, 31, 35, 39, 41 and 27 more.