223 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:25 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-45, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 111-113, 115-117 and 119-120, and 18 more places -- 23.9% 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-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 90, 94, 98, 106 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
165 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
223 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 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.
16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 90, 94, 98, 106 and 22 more.