186 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-49, snare through bars 50-51 and toms through bars 52-53, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 154-168 -- 16.9% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
170 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 25, 33, 41 and 12 more.