143 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50, ride through bars 51-62, snare through bars 63-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-81, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 9-11, and 8 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 33, 41, 49, 57, 62 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
212 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 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.
10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 33, 41, 49, 57, 62 and 31 more.