242 bars at 231 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-30, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 33, and 25 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
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BD |X--x--x--x--X--x--x--x--|17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
231 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
242 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 34 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 28 more.