227 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-50, toms through bars 51-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-163, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 15 more places -- 20.3% 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...........
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BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 25 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
240 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.
94 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.
227 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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.
13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 25 and 23 more.