185 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:07 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.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-77, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-99, 101-103 and 105-107, and 4 more places -- 26% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------x---x---|20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
180 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 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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.
20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 32 more.