129 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-47, snare through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-87, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-15, 34-47 and 74-87, and 1 more place -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |oxoxoxoxoxoxoxox|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 48, 88 and 128.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
160 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 48, 88 and 128.