258 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 6:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-82, toms through bars 83-84, ride through bars 85-116, hi-hat through bars 117-160 and toms through bars 161-162, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 20 more places -- 23.4% 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-x-----|15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 23, 32, 36, 53, 66, 83 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
171 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
258 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 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 28 times: bars 23, 32, 36, 53, 66, 83 and 22 more.