117 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, toms through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-78, silence through bars 79-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-90, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 9 more places -- 23% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |---x--x--x---x--|
T2 |x-x----xx-xx--xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 42, 58, 67 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
165 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 28, 34, 42, 58, 67 and 7 more.