211 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-40, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-36, 39-40 and 43-44, and 14 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 30, 31, 49 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
164 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
211 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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.
19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 30, 31, 49 and 24 more.