295 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 6:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-73, ride through bars 74-97, hi-hat through bars 98-122 and ride through bars 123-138, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 14 more places -- 30.2% 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---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 55 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
190 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
295 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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.
13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 55 and 25 more.