90 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 1:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-19, snare through bars 20-30, hi-hat through bars 31-36, snare through bars 37-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-80, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 3 more places -- 9.2% 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---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x-------x-----------------------x-------x-------|10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 11, 13, 15, 18, 25 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
184 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
90 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 11, 13, 15, 18, 25 and 4 more.