212 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17, toms through bars 18-22, snare through bars 23-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 35 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 67-68, and 13 more places -- 26.3% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 63 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
67 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.
212 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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.
22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 63 more.