143 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-49 and ride through bars 50-51, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 12 and 16-22, and 5 more places -- 19.7% 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.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 15, 56, 57, 62, 63 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
235 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.
94 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.
143 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 18 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 15, 56, 57, 62, 63 and 8 more.