243 bars at 222 BPM -- fast, and 4:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-50, ride through bars 51-62, hi-hat through bars 63-66, ride through bars 67-68, hi-hat through bars 69-70 and ride through bars 71-72, and 24 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 13 more places -- 9.6% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|26 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 23, 25 and 84 more.
It cuts the song into 89 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.
222 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
243 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 30 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.
26 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 23, 25 and 84 more.