172 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 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 how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-45, snare through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61 and snare through bars 62-69, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 42 and 44, and 13 more places -- 21.1% 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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 25, 49, 51, 53, 65 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
160 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
172 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 20 times: bars 17, 25, 49, 51, 53, 65 and 14 more.