181 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, toms through bars 19-20 and ride through bars 21-28, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 37, and 6 more places -- 12% 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-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|15 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 24, 35 and 38 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.
230 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 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 44 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 24, 35 and 38 more.