164 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, ride through bars 49-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-82, hi-hat through bars 83-98 and ride through bars 99-114, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-63 and 65-71, and 5 more places -- 33.5% 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
CC |X---------------|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 20 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
173 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 20 and 17 more.