93 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-3, ride through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-13, ride through bars 14-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-40, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 14 and 16, and 9 more places -- 17.6% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
93 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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.
13 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 36 more.