249 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 6:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-35 and 37-39, and 11 more places -- 20.8% 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.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---x-------x-----------x---|17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 40, 52 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
190 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.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
249 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 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.
17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 40, 52 and 21 more.