171 bars at 213 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-72, ride through bars 73-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-96, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 40 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 56, 72, 80 and 6 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.
213 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.
71 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.
171 bars, about 3:13 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, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 28, 36, 56, 72, 80 and 6 more.