141 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-42, snare through bars 43-45, ride through bars 46-66, hi-hat through bars 67-68, ride through bars 69-77 and toms through bars 78-80, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-16 and 46-52, and 3 more places -- 30.5% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 41, 42, 44, 45, 53, 64 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
240 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 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.
10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 41, 42, 44, 45, 53, 64 and 16 more.