169 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 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.
snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-30 and toms through bars 31-32, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 41-43, and 18 more places -- 23.1% 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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BD |x---------------x---------------|17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 20, 24 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 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.
17 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 20, 24 and 27 more.