126 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-17, ride through bars 18-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43 and ride through bars 44-51, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 56-58, 60-66 and 108-113, and 1 more place -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
56 57
1.......2.......3.......4.......5....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......
CC |x---------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 15, 17, 49, 51, 67 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
180 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
126 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 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.
8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 15, 17, 49, 51, 67 and 7 more.