207 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-25, snare through bars 26-32, toms through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and toms through bars 51-54, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 6 more places -- 15.7% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 22, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
207 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 22, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 and 43 more.