239 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 5:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-72, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 41-46, and 26 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 40, 47 and 29 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.
177 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.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
239 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 18 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.
16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 40, 47 and 29 more.