166 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-17, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 10-12 and 15-16, and 10 more places -- 15.2% 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-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 56, 64, 72 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
190 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 56, 64, 72 and 19 more.