194 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-23, snare through bars 24-25, ride through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-36 and snare through bars 37-62, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-35, 37-38 and 41, and 12 more places -- 18.9% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 18, 23, 36, 40, 43, 46 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 74 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.
175 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
194 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 26 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.
23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 18, 23, 36, 40, 43, 46 and 29 more.