249 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 4:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-70, snare through bars 71-74, ride through bars 75-78, snare through bars 79-82 and ride through bars 83-86, and 29 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-78, 83-86 and 91-94, and 5 more places -- 13.2% 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...........
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
170 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
249 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.