166 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-40, snare through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-52, hi-hat through bars 53-80 and snare through bars 81-88, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 65-79 and 129-135 -- 24.2% 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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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 12, 20, 24, 40, 44 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
174 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.
66 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.
166 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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.
13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 12, 20, 24, 40, 44 and 14 more.