154 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-41, ride through bars 42-45, toms through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-82 and ride through bars 83-86, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 27-28, and 9 more places -- 22.2% 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
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-x-------x-|9 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 25, 41, 42 and 33 more.
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.
156 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
154 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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.
9 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 25, 41, 42 and 33 more.