223 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-22, toms through bars 23-26, ride through bars 27-42, toms through bars 43-44 and snare through bars 45-46, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 136-140, 152-157 and 160-165 -- 7.7% 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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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|20 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 92 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
170 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
223 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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.
20 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 92 more.