159 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 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 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-117, snare through bars 118-120, hi-hat through bars 121-137 and silence through bars 138-144, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-56 and 121-136 -- 31.4% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 63, 71, 72, 95, 103 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
240 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 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.
3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 63, 71, 72, 95, 103 and 1 more.