330 bars at 280 BPM -- fast, and 4:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34, toms through bars 35-37 and silence through bars 38-44, and 35 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-34, 50-64 and 77, and 6 more places -- 22.1% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 35, 36, 44 and 42 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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.
280 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
330 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 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.
21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 35, 36, 44 and 42 more.