164 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-50, snare through bars 51-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-82, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-39 and 41-48, and 3 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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BD |x---x---x---x---|16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 57, 61 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
163 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 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.
16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 57, 61 and 17 more.