297 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 6:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-33, silence through bars 34-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60 and ride through bars 61-76, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23 -- 8.3% 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...........
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
T1 |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
T2 |------------x-----------------------------------|
FT |x-----------------------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 32, 52, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
186 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
297 bars, about 6:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 27 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.
14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 32, 52, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 21 more.