154 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-89, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 34-41 and 58-64, and 6 more places -- 52.3% 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
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 25, 33, 56 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
180 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
154 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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.
10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 25, 33, 56 and 15 more.