139 bars at 244 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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.
silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-13, snare through bars 14-18, ride through bars 19-25 and snare through bars 26-38, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-38 and 87-93 -- 11.7% 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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CC |X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 42, 45, 46, 50, 56, 64 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
244 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 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.
10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 42, 45, 46, 50, 56, 64 and 19 more.