105 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-14, snare through bars 15-17, toms through bars 18-20 and snare through bars 21-42, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 32-33 and 35-36, and 7 more places -- 28.6% 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.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-xx--x---x---x-|8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
160 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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.
8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 9 more.