197 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-21, ride through bars 22-28, snare through bars 29-33, ride through bars 34-70 and snare through bars 71-73, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-72, 106-111 and 122-127 -- 9.6% 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 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 25 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 83 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.
168 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
197 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 7, 11, 15, 17, 25 and 34 more.