125 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-46, hi-hat through bars 47-63, snare through bars 64-72 and silence through bars 73-79, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 33 and 35, and 4 more places -- 20% 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 |x---x-x---x-x---|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 46, 61, 62, 63 and 127.
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.
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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 46, 61, 62, 63 and 127.