172 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-80, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 5 more places -- 14.6% 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-----|11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 63, 71 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
160 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
172 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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.
11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 63, 71 and 6 more.