225 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-15 and toms through bars 16-19, and 36 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 23-24, and 16 more places -- 25.8% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|26 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 48 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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.
180 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.
67 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.
225 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 23 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.
26 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 48 more.