200 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-88, snare through bars 89-95, hi-hat through bars 96-97, snare through bars 98-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-110, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-48 and 57-71, and 5 more places -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
175 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
200 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.