117 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, toms through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-90, toms through bars 91-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-107, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 30-33 and 36-37, and 8 more places -- 23.7% 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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HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x-----x-|5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 67, 68, 69, 70 and 4 more.