251 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-16, ride through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-32, ride through bars 33-34 and kick and crashes through bars 35-36, and 38 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 59 and 61, and 33 more places -- 14.5% 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-------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 17, 18, 33 and 27 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.
200 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
251 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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.
9 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 17, 18, 33 and 27 more.