185 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-71, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 34 and 36, and 14 more places -- 11.7% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-xxx-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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.
15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 36 more.