110 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-61, snare through bars 62-65, ride through bars 66-73, snare through bars 74-77 and ride through bars 78-110.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-61 and 66-73, and 1 more place -- 85% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x---x-x-----x---x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
168 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
110 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 19 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.