150 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-12, toms through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-26, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11, 15 and 17, and 11 more places -- 23.3% 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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1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
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BD |x-----------------------------------------------|------x-----x-----x-----------------x-----------|20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 44 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.
155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
150 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 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.
20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 44 more.