323 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 5:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40 and snare through bars 41-42, and 52 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 68-69, and 12 more places -- 9% 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
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|24 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 21, 23, 30 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 100 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.
225 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.
85 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.
323 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 100 exercises over 29 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.
24 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 15, 17, 21, 23, 30 and 45 more.