145 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-32, toms through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-55, snare through bars 56-72 and ride through bars 73-86, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-22 and 24-30, and 4 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---g---g---g---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
173 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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.
8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48 and 22 more.