251 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, ride through bars 14-35 and kick and crashes through bars 36-37, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 10-12 and 19, and 23 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|32 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 18, 20, 22 and 60 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
230 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
251 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 22 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.
32 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 18, 20, 22 and 60 more.