231 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-50, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 35-41 and 43-44, and 8 more places -- 17% 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
HH |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-|14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 10, 26, 33, 34, 45, 46 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
218 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
231 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 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.
14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 10, 26, 33, 34, 45, 46 and 27 more.