134 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, ride through bars 33-38, snare through bars 39-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and ride through bars 65-70, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 39 and 41-43, and 8 more places -- 20.2% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 56 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
186 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 30 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 19 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 56 and 13 more.