225 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-17, hi-hat through bars 18-44, snare through bars 45-51, hi-hat through bars 52-76 and snare through bars 77-83, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 18 more places -- 9.6% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-x---------x---x---|25 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14 and 60 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
225 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 25 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.
25 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14 and 60 more.