209 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-40, toms through bars 41-57, snare through bars 58-114, toms through bars 115-131, snare through bars 132-168 and toms through bars 169-170, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 61 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
28
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---------------|
BD |------------x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 169 and 170.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
160 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.
23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
209 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 169 and 170.