194 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-63, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63, 65 and 67, and 16 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
67
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BD |x-----------x-----------x-------|8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
194 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 14 more.