208 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 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.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-58 and ride through bars 59-66, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-25 and 35-37, and 14 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 26, 34, 38 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
157 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
208 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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.
17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 26, 34, 38 and 21 more.