237 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 5:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-32, toms through bars 33-35, ride through bars 36-59, hi-hat through bars 60-81 and toms through bars 82-84, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 133-139, 141-148 and 196-202, and 3 more places -- 14.9% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx----x-xx----|20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 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.
178 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
237 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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.
20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 64 more.