116 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-92, ride through bars 93-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-116.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 21, and 12 more places -- 14.4% 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-----xxxxx----x--x-----------x--x-----x--x-----|
SD |------------x-----------x--------------------x--|
BD |x--------x--------------------------------------|9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 36, 44, 55, 56, 59, 60 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
160 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 17 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.
9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 36, 44, 55, 56, 59, 60 and 17 more.