158 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-10, toms through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-32 and ride through bars 33-34, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-32, 35-36 and 41-50, and 8 more places -- 37.1% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 75, 94 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
155 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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.
5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 75, 94 and 3 more.