103 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-37, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 18-20 and 34-36, and 3 more places -- 19.8% 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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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------xx-------x--------------xx-------|9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 7, 17, 25, 29, 41 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
160 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 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.
9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 7, 17, 25, 29, 41 and 9 more.