209 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-72, silence through bars 73-78, toms through bars 79-82, hi-hat through bars 83-113 and snare through bars 114-116, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 17, and 26 more places -- 17.7% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------X---------------X-------|
BD |X---------------X---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
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.
185 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
209 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.