162 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-40, toms through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-48, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-17, 35-40 and 67-73, and 1 more place -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---xx|10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 41, 49, 50, 74, 82 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
218 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 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.
10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 41, 49, 50, 74, 82 and 11 more.