117 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 1:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-55, hi-hat through bars 56-63, ride through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-67 and ride through bars 68-69, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 12 and 14, and 7 more places -- 26.7% 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---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 65, 69, 104 and 105.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
235 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 65, 69, 104 and 105.