214 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-30, toms through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-67, snare through bars 68-69 and toms through bars 70-71, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88-90, 92-93 and 120-122, and 12 more places -- 15.9% 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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1...........2...........3...........4...........
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BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|29 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 2, 16, 19, 20, 24, 31 and 75 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
214 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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.
29 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 2, 16, 19, 20, 24, 31 and 75 more.