161 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, toms through bars 37-40, snare through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 11 and 41-48, and 6 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 19, 20, 27, 28 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 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.
14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 19, 20, 27, 28 and 21 more.