204 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-122, silence through bars 123-130, hi-hat through bars 131-166, ride through bars 167-170, hi-hat through bars 171-190 and ride through bars 191-194, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 34 and 36, and 22 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
30
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |--x---x---x-x-x-|3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 130 and 154.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
185 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
204 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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.
3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 130 and 154.