171 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 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 3-6, toms through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-24, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 19-21 and 23, and 8 more places -- 14.6% 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...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |---g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g-----g--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|23 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 22 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
220 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 45 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 22 and 39 more.