201 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-34, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 77-83, and 7 more places -- 26.9% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|24 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 26, 34, 38 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
171 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
201 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
24 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 26, 34, 38 and 37 more.