193 bars at 232 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 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 3-23, toms through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-31, toms through bars 32-34 and ride through bars 35-42, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-41 and 52-54, and 7 more places -- 16.3% 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...........
RD |x---g---g---x---g---g---x---g---g---x---g---g---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 26 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.
232 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 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
193 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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.
17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 18, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 26 more.