210 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-21, snare through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-51 and snare through bars 52-55, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-62, 64 and 66, and 9 more places -- 11.7% 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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BD |x-----------x-----------x-------|16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 27, 38, 51, 52, 53, 63 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
220 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.
71 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.
210 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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.
16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 27, 38, 51, 52, 53, 63 and 34 more.