179 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-26, toms through bars 27-28 and snare through bars 29-31, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 154-179 -- 15.2% 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.....
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BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 82, 83, 91 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
194 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 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.
9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 82, 83, 91 and 8 more.