159 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-32 and toms through bars 33-34, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 51-53 and 55-57, and 3 more places -- 16.5% 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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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 25, 26, 33 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 25, 26, 33 and 15 more.