244 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-14, ride through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-29 and ride through bars 30-32, and 38 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-52, 54-55 and 58-60, and 5 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
50 51
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
RD |--------------------------------|----------------x---x---x---x---|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|----o---o---o-------------------|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x-------x-------|22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 63 more.
It cuts the song into 74 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.
207 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 98 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
244 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 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.
22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 63 more.