165 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-45, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-80, 82-84 and 86-88, and 5 more places -- 15.4% 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-----------|
BD |x---x---x---------------x---x---x---------------|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 53, 65, 73, 121 and 165.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
200 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 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.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 53, 65, 73, 121 and 165.