141 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, ride through bars 35-39 and toms through bars 40-43, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 68-74 and 76-82 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
68 69
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
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BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|------x-----------------------------------x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 22, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
167 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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.
10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 22, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 11 more.