381 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 9:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-121, silence through bars 122-127, ride through bars 128-152, hi-hat through bars 153-250 and toms through bars 251-252, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 153, 155 and 157, and 11 more places -- 16.6% 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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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 76, 77, 82, 83, 88 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
159 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
381 bars, about 9:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 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.
7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 76, 77, 82, 83, 88 and 25 more.