133 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and ride through bars 53-68, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 30-31, and 7 more places -- 15.2% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 28, 32, 36 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
173 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
133 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 28, 32, 36 and 11 more.