199 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-18, hi-hat through bars 19-131, snare through bars 132-134, hi-hat through bars 135-195 and silence through bars 196-199.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 11 more places -- 25.6% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
230 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
199 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 21 more.