104 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-101 and silence through bars 102-104.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 28-35 and 54-61, and 1 more place -- 27.7% 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+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 11, 14, 16, 19, 37 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
205 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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.
3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 11, 14, 16, 19, 37 and 3 more.