450 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 9:29 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.
toms through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-50, silence through bars 51-81, hi-hat through bars 82-97 and ride through bars 98-129, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 185-191, 193-195 and 197-199, and 9 more places -- 20.1% 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.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 97, 129, 168, 170, 172, 192 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 75 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.
170 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
450 bars, about 9:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 22 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.
13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 97, 129, 168, 170, 172, 192 and 12 more.