42 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 0:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-25, ride through bars 26-30 and toms through bars 31-32, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21 and 23-25 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
19 20
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------x-----|------------------------x-----------------x-----|
BD |------------------x--x--------------x-----------|------------x-----------------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 17 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.
210 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
42 bars, about 0:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 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.