200 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-17, silence through bars 18-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-24, snare through bars 25-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-44, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 41-43 and 47, and 8 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |X-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
175 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
200 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72 and 12 more.