186 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-64 and snare through bars 65-81, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-24 and 26-40, and 3 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|16 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 25, 41, 49, 65, 81 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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.
16 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 25, 41, 49, 65, 81 and 12 more.