177 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare and kick.
18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-41, ride through bars 42-50, snare through bars 51-58, silence through bars 59-60 and snare through bars 61-119, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-19 and 23-32, and 9 more places -- 88.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
5
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-x-----x-|
SD |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 6 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.
164 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.
18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.