266 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42, toms through bars 43-44, snare through bars 45-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 33 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 7 more places -- 20.5% 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.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
266 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 21 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.
18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 and 36 more.