234 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-34, and 38 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-31 and 78-84, and 7 more places -- 27.5% 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-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|15 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 26 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
164 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
234 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 24 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.
15 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 26 and 45 more.