165 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-42, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 43 and 63, and 9 more places -- 16.6% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|20 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
170 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.
74 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.
165 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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.
20 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 20, 28, 36 and 22 more.