167 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38 and ride through bars 39-40, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 18 and 20, and 7 more places -- 8.6% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 14, 32, 36 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
163 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
167 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 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.
10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 14, 32, 36 and 23 more.