173 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-37, toms through bars 38-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-108 and kick and crashes through bars 109-112, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61, 63 and 65-67, and 13 more places -- 22.1% 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...........
CC |------------------------x-----------------------|
HH |o-----------o-----------------------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 36, 38, 39, 40, 60 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
230 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.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
173 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 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.
14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 36, 38, 39, 40, 60 and 14 more.