189 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, snare through bars 21-24, toms through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35 and snare through bars 36-39, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 4 and 7, and 11 more places -- 9.5% 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---x---|25 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 6, 11, 12, 20, 25, 26 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 81 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.
210 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.
73 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.
189 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 28 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 49 times: bars 6, 11, 12, 20, 25, 26 and 43 more.