269 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-52 and silence through bars 53-54, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 21-27 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 23.8% 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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CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|25 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 20, 28, 32 and 54 more.
It cuts the song into 89 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.
250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
269 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 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.
25 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 20, 28, 32 and 54 more.