210 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-24, toms through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 29 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 65-71, and 13 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|23 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 36, 40, 48 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
210 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
23 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 36, 40, 48 and 43 more.