177 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-31, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 26-29 and 31, and 4 more places -- 9.8% 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...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x-----------x-----------|19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 21, 32 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 29 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 21, 32 and 22 more.