168 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-13, toms through bars 14-24, hi-hat through bars 25-51 and snare through bars 52-55, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 48 and 52, and 2 more places -- 19.8% 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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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x-|20 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 49 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.
220 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
20 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 49 more.