177 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-65, silence through bars 66-80, hi-hat through bars 81-94, toms through bars 95-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-126, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 17-23 and 25-30, and 14 more places -- 71.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
160 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.