162 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16 and ride through bars 17-18, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 68, and 9 more places -- 15.4% 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---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
180 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.
72 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.
162 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 31 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 22 and 25 more.