105 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-37, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-33 and 50-57 -- 17.3% 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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RD |x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 47, 58, 59 and 82.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
178 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 22, 47, 58, 59 and 82.