197 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-76, ride through bars 77-92, hi-hat through bars 93-132 and ride through bars 133-148, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-42, 45-51 and 61-66, and 8 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 43 and 21 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.
178 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
197 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.
13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 43 and 21 more.