161 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57, snare through bars 58-65, hi-hat through bars 66-103 and snare through bars 104-145, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 104-142 -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
104 105
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---|
BD |x-xxx-xxx---x-xx|x-xxx---|6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 5, 25, 57, 101, 102 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 5, 25, 57, 101, 102 and 4 more.