211 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-211.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-21 and 23-25, and 35 more places -- 74.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx--xxx-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 210.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
163 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
211 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 210.