222 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-31, toms through bars 32-39, hi-hat through bars 40-101 and toms through bars 102-109, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-67 and 110-123 -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----------|9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 18, 24 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
155 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
222 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 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.
9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 16, 18, 24 and 15 more.