149 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-73, ride through bars 74-81, hi-hat through bars 82-97 and toms through bars 98-114, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16 and 42-57 -- 20.9% 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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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 91 and 97.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
172 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 91 and 97.