293 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 6:10 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.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-17, ride through bars 18-65 and silence through bars 66-68, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-100, 102 and 104, and 12 more places -- 9.2% 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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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---xxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 70, 71, 72 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 77 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
293 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 35 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 70, 71, 72 and 29 more.