322 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 7:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-45, hi-hat through bars 46-77, toms through bars 78-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-89 and snare through bars 90-91, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 160-162, 164-166 and 168-170, and 16 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 61, 90, 91, 99, 110, 149 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
170 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
322 bars, about 7:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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.
14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 61, 90, 91, 99, 110, 149 and 31 more.