293 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 7:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, ride through bars 37-68, hi-hat through bars 69-100, ride through bars 101-132 and hi-hat through bars 133-293.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-36, 69-100 and 133-292 -- 77.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
161 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
293 bars, about 7:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.