252 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-26, toms through bars 27-45, hi-hat through bars 46-78, snare through bars 79-80 and ride through bars 81-82, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-54, 89-98 and 100-102, and 6 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|23 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 46, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 91 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
180 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
252 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
23 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 46, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 91 more.