224 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, ride through bars 59-68, hi-hat through bars 69-106 and ride through bars 107-130, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-27 and 43-57 -- 17.6% 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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HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
BD |x-----x---------|4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 58, 65, 155, 193, 206 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
224 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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.
4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 58, 65, 155, 193, 206 and 3 more.