229 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-30, snare through bars 31-38, ride through bars 39-44, snare through bars 45-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-97, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-64, 66-68 and 70-72, and 15 more places -- 20.7% 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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CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
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BD |x-----------x---------------x---|17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 18, 19, 23 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 88 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.
170 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
229 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 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.
17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 18, 19, 23 and 26 more.