60 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 1:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 1 more place -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-----------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x-x---------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
167 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
60 bars, about 1:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.