158 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-11, ride through bars 12-36, toms through bars 37-42, ride through bars 43-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-54, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 31-32 and 43-45, and 9 more places -- 12.3% 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-----------------------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|24 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 73 more.
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.
155 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 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.
24 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 73 more.