218 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-74, silence through bars 75-76, hi-hat through bars 77-94, silence through bars 95-128 and ride through bars 129-136, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 4 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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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--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 217 and 218.
It cuts the song into 32 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 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
218 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 217 and 218.