177 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-48, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-48, 83-98 and 164, and 3 more places -- 23.5% 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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1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
175 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 21 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.