284 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 20 more places -- 16.1% 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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1...........2...........3...........4...........
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HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
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BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 25, 41, 45, 56, 60 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 89 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.
220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
284 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 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.
22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 25, 41, 45, 56, 60 and 32 more.