217 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-117 and snare through bars 118-138, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-37, 42-45 and 50-52, and 19 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 21, 29, 60, 61, 93, 97 and 18 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.
164 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
217 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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.
15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 21, 29, 60, 61, 93, 97 and 18 more.