159 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14 and snare through bars 15-16, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 49-63 and 98-112 -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 48, 64 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
190 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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.
7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 48, 64 and 10 more.