167 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-37, ride through bars 38-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-73, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-68, 70-72 and 82-84, and 3 more places -- 12% 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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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
167 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 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.
23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 39 more.