240 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-52, snare through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-64, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 33-39, and 11 more places -- 32.9% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---xx--|20 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 69 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
180 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
240 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 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.
20 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 69 more.