163 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-32, snare through bars 33-49, hi-hat through bars 50-64, toms through bars 65-81 and snare through bars 82-96, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-88, 90-96 and 107-113, and 1 more place -- 13.9% 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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CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 37, 81, 89, 118 and 130.
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.
186 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 24 sittings, about 23 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.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 35, 37, 81, 89, 118 and 130.