281 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 5:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 32 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-29 and 65-71, and 9 more places -- 28.5% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
195 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
281 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 30 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.
16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 37 more.