380 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 9:30 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-44, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 254-256, 258-259 and 262-264, and 17 more places -- 13.7% 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
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|8 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 88 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
160 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
380 bars, about 9:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 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.
8 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 88 and 32 more.