208 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-19, snare through bars 20-33 and toms through bars 34-40, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 16 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 56 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
208 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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.
17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 56 and 31 more.