198 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26 and ride through bars 27-34, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-53, 77-91 and 141-143, and 1 more place -- 25.3% 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---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 18, 26, 35 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
180 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
198 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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.
14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 18, 26, 35 and 36 more.