205 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-66, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 49-51, and 24 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|26 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 20 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
185 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
205 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 29 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.
26 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 20 and 36 more.