187 bars at 245 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 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.
ride through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-23, ride through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-27, ride through bars 28-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-31, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 8, and 17 more places -- 12.9% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|29 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 59 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
245 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 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 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.
29 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 59 more.