200 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, ride through bars 19-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-51, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 22-26 and 30, and 12 more places -- 12.5% 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 |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 9, 10, 28, 34, 40, 42 and 31 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.
260 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
200 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 25 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.
16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 9, 10, 28, 34, 40, 42 and 31 more.