144 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-27, snare through bars 28-44, toms through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-52, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35 and 37, and 13 more places -- 29.1% 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-x-x-x-x-x-|14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 35 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
67 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.
144 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 35 more.