169 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bars 1-119, ride through bars 120-125, toms through bars 126-127, ride through bars 128-135, silence through bars 136-139 and kick and crashes through bars 140-141, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-42, 45-47 and 50, and 17 more places -- 30.3% 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.....
HH |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 43, 51, 59, 63, 91, 99 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
160 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 much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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.
7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 43, 51, 59, 63, 91, 99 and 18 more.