168 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-30, hi-hat through bars 31-40, silence through bars 41-51, toms through bars 52-55 and snare through bars 56-88, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 58 and 61, and 6 more places -- 5.9% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxx-----xxxxx-|9 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 105 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
160 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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.
9 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 105 more.