225 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 5:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-55, silence through bars 56-62, ride through bars 63-74, toms through bars 75-78 and ride through bars 79-84, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 75-77 and 83, and 5 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---------x-|--x---x---------|
SD |--------xx------|----------xx----|
T1 |----------xx----|------------xx--|
T2 |------------xx--|--------------xx|
BD |x---x---------x-|--x---x---------|
HF |g---g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 36, 38, 39 and 36 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.
178 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
225 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 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.
16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 36, 38, 39 and 36 more.