131 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.
silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-131.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 54 more places -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxoo-xoo-x|
SD |----x-----x---x-|
BD |x-------x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
158 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.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 19 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.