191 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, silence through bars 21-25, snare through bars 26-28 and ride through bars 29-33, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 34-36 and 121-135, and 2 more places -- 15.3% 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.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 15 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
180 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
191 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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.
16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 15 and 43 more.