214 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, ride through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38 and ride through bars 39-42, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 74, and 5 more places -- 29.4% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 26, 50, 58, 89, 90 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
214 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 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 25, 26, 50, 58, 89, 90 and 10 more.