256 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 5:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-63, hi-hat through bars 64-120, snare through bars 121-126, toms through bars 127-128, snare through bars 129-134 and hi-hat through bars 135-144, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 24 more places -- 10.6% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |----------------x---------------|
T1 |----x---x---------------------x-|
T2 |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
BD |------------x-------------------|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|24 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 88, 124 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 82 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.
172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
256 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
24 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 88, 124 and 26 more.