243 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 5:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-30 and toms through bars 31-34, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88-102, 104-106 and 108, and 6 more places -- 20.2% 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.......
HH |X---x---X---x---X---x---X---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 22, 26, 32, 34, 46, 50 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
179 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
243 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 22, 26, 32, 34, 46, 50 and 19 more.