87 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, silence through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-28, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 48-50 and 52-54 -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
48 49
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
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FT |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x-----------x-----------x-------|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 38, 84, 85 and 86.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
87 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 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.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 38, 84, 85 and 86.