163 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-44, snare through bars 45-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-51, snare through bars 52-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-87, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 41-44 and 51, and 4 more places -- 15% 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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BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 40, 80 and 85.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
200 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 40, 80 and 85.