117 bars at 223 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32, ride through bars 33-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-63, 65-71 and 101-107, and 1 more place -- 24.3% 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.......
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---|17 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
223 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.
100 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.
117 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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.
17 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 16 more.