162 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-42, silence through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-89, silence through bars 90-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-162.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 29, and 7 more places -- 17% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-xxxxx-x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 31, 32, 39, 40, 72, 87 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
205 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 31, 32, 39, 40, 72, 87 and 6 more.