275 bars at 234 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-61, 63-80 and 98-113, and 1 more place -- 28.1% 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-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|22 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
234 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
275 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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.
22 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 46 more.