240 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-72, snare through bars 73-88, hi-hat through bars 89-114, snare through bars 115-116, hi-hat through bars 117-118 and toms through bars 119-120, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 193-195, 197-199 and 201-203, and 5 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
193 194
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |-----g--x----g--x----g--g----o--|---g----o----g--x----g--x----g--|
SD |---g-------g----x----------g----|g----g-----g----x----------g----|
BD |x------------x----------x----x--|---x----x----x----------x-------|
HF |--------------------------------|x----------x--------------------|15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 47, 48 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
180 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
240 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 47, 48 and 36 more.