224 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 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.
snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-39, hi-hat through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-49, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 68-83 and 118-132, and 3 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 17, 24, 25, 32, 33 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
185 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
224 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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.
13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 17, 24, 25, 32, 33 and 26 more.