71 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 230 BPM, 2:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, ride through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-41, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9 and 35 -- 23.1% 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.......5.......6.......7.......8.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---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---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
230 BPM, in 8/4, 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
71 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.