140 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-10, snare through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-19, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 10 more places -- 22.8% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 16, 22, 23 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
160 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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.
12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 16, 22, 23 and 34 more.