234 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-43, snare through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-47, snare through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51 and snare through bars 52-53, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 12 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o---oo|
SD |x---x---x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxx-xx|15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 15, 25, 29, 33, 37, 77 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
234 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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.
15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 15, 25, 29, 33, 37, 77 and 19 more.