202 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-57, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 19-24 and 34-40, and 23 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|23 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 17 and 64 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
202 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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.
23 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 17 and 64 more.