202 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 4:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-23, hi-hat through bars 24-27, ride through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-35 and ride through bars 36-39, and 29 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 25-26 and 33-34, and 15 more places -- 16.6% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 15, 39, 62, 63, 70 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
188 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
202 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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.
15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 15, 39, 62, 63, 70 and 18 more.