141 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-25, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 113-115, and 3 more places -- 17.9% 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.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 31, 35, 37, 42 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 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.
10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 31, 35, 37, 42 and 18 more.