168 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-19, toms through bars 20-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 49-51, and 11 more places -- 24.8% 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-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|18 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
174 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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.
18 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 46 more.