287 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 6:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-29, hi-hat through bars 30-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-43, hi-hat through bars 44-71 and ride through bars 72-87, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-54 and 56-58, and 21 more places -- 25.3% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|23 fills to learn, played 88 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 82 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
178 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
287 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 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.
23 fills to learn, played 88 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 82 more.