200 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-41, hi-hat through bars 42-45, toms through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53 and toms through bars 54-57, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 27, and 15 more places -- 11% 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-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-------x-------x---|29 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 60 more.
It cuts the song into 90 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 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
200 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 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 66 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 60 more.