293 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 6:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-64, hi-hat through bars 65-95, ride through bars 96-143, hi-hat through bars 144-159 and silence through bars 160-164, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 30 more places -- 23.7% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|15 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 50, 52 and 63 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
175 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
293 bars, about 6:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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.
15 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 50, 52 and 63 more.