159 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-46, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29-31 and 35, and 18 more places -- 26.4% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
69 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.
159 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 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.
11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14 more.