202 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-11, ride through bars 12-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-24 and ride through bars 25-40, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 67-69 and 71-72, and 10 more places -- 28.2% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 48, 56, 63 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
220 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
202 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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.
22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 48, 56, 63 and 29 more.