175 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-44, snare through bars 45-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-64, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 45 and 47, and 13 more places -- 21.1% 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.....4.....
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 28, 52, 54, 56, 68 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
160 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
175 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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.
15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 28, 52, 54, 56, 68 and 16 more.