117 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 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 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34 and snare through bars 35-36, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 35-36 and 39, and 5 more places -- 21.5% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 8 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.
196 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 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, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 8 more.