144 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, snare through bars 27-30, toms through bars 31-32 and ride through bars 33-54, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 1 more place -- 7.7% 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---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |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---|33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 58 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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.
220 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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.
33 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 58 more.