238 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 5:32 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-238.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-66, 72 and 80, and 12 more places -- 19.3% 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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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|19 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 3, 20, 22, 26, 28 and 35 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
172 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
238 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 28 sittings, about 23 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.
19 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 3, 20, 22, 26, 28 and 35 more.