272 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-53, ride through bars 54-61, hi-hat through bars 62-69 and ride through bars 70-77, and 28 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-15, and 10 more places -- 15.6% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|38 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 19 and 71 more.
It cuts the song into 91 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.
191 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
272 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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.
38 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 19 and 71 more.