198 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-42 and toms through bars 43-52, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 18 more places -- 16.2% 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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BD |x-------------------------------|27 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 36, 38, 40 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 85 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.
216 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
198 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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.
27 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 36, 38, 40 and 37 more.