132 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, ride through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45 and ride through bars 46-63, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-28 and 34-44 -- 16.7% 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 |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 49, 57, 59, 61, 63, 70 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
158 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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.
9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 49, 57, 59, 61, 63, 70 and 15 more.