238 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
ride through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-18, toms through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38 and snare through bars 39-54, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 163-165, 167-169 and 172, and 15 more places -- 20% 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---o---o---o---o---o-------o---|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
FT |x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 10, 14, 20, 21, 22, 42 and 38 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
192 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
238 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 44 times: bars 10, 14, 20, 21, 22, 42 and 38 more.