236 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-22, hi-hat through bars 23-50 and toms through bars 51-52, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 23-27 and 29-35, and 5 more places -- 18.5% 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-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|26 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 49 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
236 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 23 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.
26 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 49 more.