211 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-38, hi-hat through bars 39-64, ride through bars 65-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-112, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-37 and 65-71, and 6 more places -- 24.2% 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.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 40, 48, 56 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
215 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.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
211 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 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.
18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 40, 48, 56 and 23 more.