178 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and ride through bars 49-64, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 41-43, and 16 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
77 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.
178 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 36 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 30 more.