209 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-50, ride through bars 51-66 and kick and crashes through bars 67-74, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 22-24 and 51-57, and 20 more places -- 31.2% 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
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 33, 41, 48 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
212 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
209 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 33, 41, 48 and 20 more.