152 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-47, snare through bars 48-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-91, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-63 and 116-130 -- 19.1% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 29, 37 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
200 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 25, 29, 37 and 36 more.