164 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-26, hi-hat through bars 27-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and toms through bars 49-63, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 28 and 32, and 9 more places -- 23.2% 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---X---X---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 68, 96, 116 and 123.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
190 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 68, 96, 116 and 123.