200 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-20, snare through bars 21-23, silence through bars 24-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and ride through bars 39-46, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 21 more places -- 20.4% 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...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------------x-----x-----------------|12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 21, 22, 30, 37, 38 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
210 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
200 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 6, 21, 22, 30, 37, 38 and 23 more.