247 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-9, silence through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-15 and hi-hat through bars 16-36, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20-21, and 38 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 43, 44, 48, 49, 85, 86 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
247 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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.
10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 43, 44, 48, 49, 85, 86 and 11 more.