181 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-35, ride through bars 36-42, hi-hat through bars 43-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-68, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 29-30 and 33-34, and 8 more places -- 24.6% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 3, 11, 19, 27, 31 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
240 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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.
15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 3, 11, 19, 27, 31 and 32 more.