372 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 198 BPM, 5:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 2-29, ride through bars 30-44, hi-hat through bars 45-86, toms through bars 87-88, ride through bars 89-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-115, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 9-13 and 16-20, and 15 more places -- 19.5% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-|20 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22 and 74 more.
It cuts the song into 73 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.
198 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
372 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 24 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.
20 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22 and 74 more.