217 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-62, hi-hat through bars 63-86, kick and crashes through bars 87-90, ride through bars 91-96 and silence through bars 97-100, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 17 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
170 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
217 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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.
19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 45 more.