232 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52 and ride through bars 53-56, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 11 more places -- 12.1% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|35 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 75 more.
It cuts the song into 85 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.
185 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.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
232 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 24 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.
35 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 75 more.