204 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-22, hi-hat through bars 23-44, ride through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52 and ride through bars 53-56, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-38, 57-62 and 65-71, and 8 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 30, 39, 40 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
182 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
204 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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.
15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 30, 39, 40 and 25 more.