342 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-37, hi-hat through bars 38-51, toms through bars 52-59 and snare through bars 60-63, and 30 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-43, 46-51 and 82-87, and 14 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|38 fills to learn, played 85 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 8, 12, 15 and 79 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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 sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
342 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
38 fills to learn, played 85 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 8, 12, 15 and 79 more.