234 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 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 1-18, ride through bars 19-25, snare through bars 26-34, toms through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-67 and toms through bars 68-69, and 28 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27-31 and 80-84, and 6 more places -- 16.4% 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-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 18, 26, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
164 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 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
234 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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.
19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 18, 26, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 46 more.