191 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, toms through bars 16-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-23, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-49, 51-56 and 136-143 -- 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.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|22 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 13, 16 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 75 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.
250 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
191 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 40 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 13, 16 and 34 more.