139 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 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.
ride through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, ride through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-25, toms through bars 26-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-43, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-93, 95-97 and 99-101, and 3 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
91
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BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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.
22 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 43 more.