147 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-45, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 83-85, and 2 more places -- 18.4% 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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CC |x-----------|
HH |----o---o---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17 and 22 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.
194 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
147 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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.
11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 17 and 22 more.