81 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 1:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-27, ride through bars 28-45, snare through bars 46-55, ride through bars 56-66 and silence through bars 67-81.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-15 and 65-66 -- 12.1% 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.......
RD |g-g-g-g-g-g-x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-x-g-|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
218 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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.
11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 16 more.