449 bars at 280 BPM -- fast, and 6:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-60, ride through bars 61-74, snare through bars 75-76 and ride through bars 77-84, and 30 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 77-79 and 229-230, and 34 more places -- 27.7% 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-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
280 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
449 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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.
15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 39 more.