154 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, snare through bars 43-54, hi-hat through bars 55-77 and toms through bars 78-81, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90, 92 and 94, and 6 more places -- 16% 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 |x-----x---x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 25, 26, 43 and 12 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.
195 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
154 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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.
10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 25, 26, 43 and 12 more.