163 bars at 300 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-30, toms through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-109, ride through bars 110-127 and hi-hat through bars 128-153, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-53, 55-57 and 59-61, and 17 more places -- 26.4% 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---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--xx--xx--|8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 14, 36, 40, 51, 66, 70 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
300 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 14, 36, 40, 51, 66, 70 and 14 more.