151 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-39 and ride through bars 40-51, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 21 and 55, and 10 more places -- 8.6% 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----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|23 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 77 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.
157 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
151 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 26 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.
23 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 27 more.