174 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-41 and toms through bars 42-50, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 13 more places -- 9.5% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----xx------x-gg|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|25 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 59 more.
It cuts the song into 76 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.
161 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
174 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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.
25 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 59 more.