138 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and snare through bars 35-40, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 27 more places -- 31.2% 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---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 34, 37, 38 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
193 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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.
10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 34, 37, 38 and 21 more.