225 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-64, snare through bars 65-68, hi-hat through bars 69-87, snare through bars 88-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-98, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-22, 24-30 and 32-38, and 4 more places -- 26.5% 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-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|27 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 23, 31, 39, 43, 45 and 51 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
175 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
225 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 20 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.
27 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 23, 31, 39, 43, 45 and 51 more.