171 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, toms through bars 53-55, snare through bars 56-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-73, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 22-23 and 26, and 4 more places -- 12.2% 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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CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|-g--x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|12 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 19, 27, 38, 46, 47, 48 and 44 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
180 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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.
12 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 19, 27, 38, 46, 47, 48 and 44 more.