86 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-44 and silence through bars 45-46, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 27-42 and 47-86 -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 6 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.
160 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
86 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.