168 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-50, ride through bars 51-58 and snare through bars 59-60, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-41 and 43-49, and 4 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--xx-x-x--xx-x-|5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 42, 68, 84, 92 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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.
5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 42, 68, 84, 92 and 5 more.