242 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 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.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-56, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 15, and 15 more places -- 7.6% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 22, 24, 28 and 48 more.
It cuts the song into 86 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.
185 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
242 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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.
27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 22, 24, 28 and 48 more.