250 bars at 210 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 12 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
183 184
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x---x---|
BD |x---x-x-------x-|x-----x---x---x-|30 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 19 and 54 more.
It cuts the song into 87 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.
210 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
250 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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.
30 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 19 and 54 more.