166 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-24, toms through bars 25-27, silence through bars 28-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-50, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 15-16 and 19-20, and 8 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |----x-------x---|
FT |x-------x-------|
HF |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
165 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 16 more.