131 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-22, hi-hat through bars 23-46, toms through bars 47-62, ride through bars 63-74 and toms through bars 75-78, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 63-74 and 89-99 -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
63 64
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x---x--x---|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 30, 38, 88, 100, 103, 104 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 30, 38, 88, 100, 103, 104 and 7 more.