195 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-68, silence through bars 69-82, hi-hat through bars 83-136 and snare through bars 137-144, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44, 53-68 and 83-100, and 1 more place -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 52, 111, 112, 124, 132 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
200 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.
76 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.
195 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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.
5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 52, 111, 112, 124, 132 and 6 more.