182 bars at 262 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-26, ride through bars 27-50, snare through bars 51-66, hi-hat through bars 67-86 and ride through bars 87-96, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-24 -- 13.3% 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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BD |x---x---x-------x---x---x-------|17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 25, 42, 46, 50, 59 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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.
262 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.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
182 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 26 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.
17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 25, 42, 46, 50, 59 and 18 more.