128 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 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.
ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-19, ride through bars 20-21 and snare through bars 22-23, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 83, 88-89 and 91-93, and 2 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
88 89
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
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BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|------x-----------------x-----------x-----------|10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 20, 41, 53, 84, 94 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
155 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 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 11 times: bars 4, 20, 41, 53, 84, 94 and 5 more.