217 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-28, toms through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-79, silence through bars 80-82 and ride through bars 83-92, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 115-116, and 7 more places -- 10.8% 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...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|20 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 21, 22, 29, 30, 38 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 88 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.
250 BPM, in 4/4, 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
217 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 29 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.
20 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 21, 22, 29, 30, 38 and 25 more.