226 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29 and ride through bars 30-31, and 34 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-37, 40-41 and 44-45, and 19 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 196, 220 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
165 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
226 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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.
3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 196, 220 and 5 more.