196 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-65, hi-hat through bars 66-80 and snare through bars 81-103, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 8 more places -- 14.1% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 40, 80, 133 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
200 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
196 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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.
8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 40, 80, 133 and 7 more.