141 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, silence through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-41 and snare through bars 42-45, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-84, 86-104 and 106-108, and 2 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x-x---|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 17, 109 and 117.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 17, 109 and 117.