137 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 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.
ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-11, toms through bars 12-19, snare through bars 20-28, hi-hat through bars 29-51 and toms through bars 52-62, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 30-37 and 45, and 4 more places -- 32.5% 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---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 11, 14, 19, 20, 39 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
195 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
137 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 11, 14, 19, 20, 39 and 8 more.