205 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-18, toms through bars 19-22, ride through bars 23-28, snare through bars 29-30 and ride through bars 31-36, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-61, 104-119 and 167-181 -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
47 48
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x---|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--x-----x---x---|12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 39, 43, 46, 88, 92 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
175 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
205 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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.
12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 39, 43, 46, 88, 92 and 13 more.