136 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-33, ride through bars 34-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-55, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54 and 124-136 -- 13.1% 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-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 6, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 35 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
165 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
136 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 6, 12, 16, 17, 18, 20 and 35 more.