251 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 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.
toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-48 and snare through bars 49-50, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 51-65 and 91-97, and 11 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 48, 49, 104, 105 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
250 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
251 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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.
11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 48, 49, 104, 105 and 19 more.