121 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-64, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 29-40 and 53-64, and 2 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-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 16 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.
190 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.