173 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-79 and toms through bars 80-81, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-40 and 57-64, and 3 more places -- 28.4% 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-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 56, 72, 80 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
185 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
173 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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.
10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 56, 72, 80 and 16 more.