97 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-51, ride through bars 52-57, toms through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-97.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 26-28, and 3 more places -- 21.2% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x--g--x---|
BD |x-x-x-----x---x-|8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 25, 41, 51 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 25, 41, 51 and 20 more.