141 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, snare through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-49, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 18-24, and 8 more places -- 30.4% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----------------|9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
156 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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.
9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 20 more.