322 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 8:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 2-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-25, ride through bars 26-57, hi-hat through bars 58-111 and toms through bars 112-113, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-103, 106-110 and 114-119, and 6 more places -- 18.1% 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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BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|27 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 17, 19, 41, 49, 65, 73 and 38 more.
It cuts the song into 88 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.
160 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
322 bars, about 8:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 27 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
27 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 17, 19, 41, 49, 65, 73 and 38 more.