168 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, ride through bars 27-32, toms through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-82, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-24 and 67-80 -- 16.7% 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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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|16 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 25, 26, 30 and 53 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 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.
16 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 25, 26, 30 and 53 more.