108 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-25, ride through bars 26-44, hi-hat through bars 45-66, ride through bars 67-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-81, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-22, 26-38 and 67-77 -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 101, 102 and 103.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
200 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 101, 102 and 103.