140 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-29, ride through bars 30-31 and snare through bars 32-34, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 20 and 24, and 12 more places -- 19.4% 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---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 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.
6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 20 more.