233 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-65, hi-hat through bars 66-73, ride through bars 74-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-145, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 21 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 21, 25, 33, 61, 65 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
212 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
233 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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.
7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 21, 25, 33, 61, 65 and 18 more.