297 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 6:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-73, hi-hat through bars 74-89 and ride through bars 90-97, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 13 more places -- 16.4% 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
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx---x-xxxxxx|8 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 9, 33, 41, 65, 66, 67 and 52 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
175 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
297 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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.
8 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 9, 33, 41, 65, 66, 67 and 52 more.