203 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28 and ride through bars 29-30, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 15 more places -- 8.9% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 24, 26 and 58 more.
It cuts the song into 97 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
203 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 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.
33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 24, 26 and 58 more.