190 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-19, snare through bars 20-29, hi-hat through bars 30-38, ride through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-46, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-10, 20-27 and 182-189 -- 12.8% 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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BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx-x-x--xx|26 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 80 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
165 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
190 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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.
26 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 80 more.