223 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-46, toms through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72 and snare through bars 73-78, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-23 and 25-31, and 8 more places -- 15.7% 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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BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|22 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 49 more.
It cuts the song into 87 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.
158 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.
67 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.
223 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
22 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 49 more.