171 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-109, 129-135 and 137-142 -- 12.2% 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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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 44, 48 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 67 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 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.
13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 44, 48 and 13 more.