166 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, 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.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-64, toms through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-122, snare through bars 123-126 and hi-hat through bars 127-142, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 10 more places -- 20.5% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x--g-g--x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|20 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 32, 34 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
184 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
20 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 32, 34 and 46 more.