169 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, ride through bars 9-165 and toms through bars 166-169.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 18, and 16 more places -- 11.6% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
RD |x---x-x-x-x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx----x-x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
162 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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.