210 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-52 and snare through bars 53-59, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 35, and 5 more places -- 17.7% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 33 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 76 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.
200 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
210 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 24 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.
11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 33 and 20 more.