155 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44, snare through bars 45-48 and kick and crashes through bars 49-52, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 11 more places -- 24.3% 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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1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x-----x--x--x-----------------x-----------|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 108, 146 and 154.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 21 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 48, 56, 108, 146 and 154.