242 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-25, snare through bars 26-27, toms through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-45 and ride through bars 46-50, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 20-22, and 25 more places -- 34% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|26 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 7, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19 and 60 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
160 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
242 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 20 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.
26 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 7, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19 and 60 more.