162 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-58, hi-hat through bars 59-80 and snare through bars 81-82, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-38 and 60, and 5 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 57 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
200 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 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.
18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 57 and 22 more.