167 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-65, toms through bars 66-67, hi-hat through bars 68-123, snare through bars 124-127 and hi-hat through bars 128-143, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, 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-----|19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 33, 34 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
167 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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.
19 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 33, 34 and 46 more.