196 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-29, toms through bars 30-34, ride through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 125-126 and 128, and 6 more places -- 17.6% 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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BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 35, 36, 38 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
157 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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.
196 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 35, 36, 38 and 37 more.