258 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-89, toms through bars 90-91, hi-hat through bars 92-93 and ride through bars 94-121, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 23-27 and 31-33, and 11 more places -- 13.5% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-x-xxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 21, 22, 28 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 67 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.
175 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.
71 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.
258 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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.
15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 21, 22, 28 and 33 more.