163 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 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 many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-26, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 42-44, and 9 more places -- 22.2% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 16, 36, 40, 41, 49 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
200 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 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 29 times: bars 4, 16, 36, 40, 41, 49 and 23 more.