197 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 45-47 and 49-51, and 12 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 20, 28, 36 and 35 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.
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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
197 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.
20 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 20, 28, 36 and 35 more.