164 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-45, ride through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-105, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 26 and 31, and 19 more places -- 15.9% 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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BD |X-------X-------------------x---|19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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.
19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 15 and 22 more.