157 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24 and ride through bars 25-32, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 17 and 19, and 4 more places -- 8.7% 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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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-|27 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26 and 44 more.
It cuts the song into 76 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 99 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 25 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.
27 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26 and 44 more.