278 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-33, snare through bars 34-50, hi-hat through bars 51-70 and ride through bars 71-72, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-50, 75-77 and 95-99, and 36 more places -- 21.7% 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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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 34, 54, 62, 78 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 75 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.
218 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
278 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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.
23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 34, 54, 62, 78 and 39 more.