122 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32 and 34-40 -- 13.6% 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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1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 44, 51, 52, 107, 118 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 44, 51, 52, 107, 118 and 2 more.