242 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 167-173, 175-180 and 183-189, and 1 more place -- 11% 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...........
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BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|29 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 38 and 66 more.
It cuts the song into 91 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 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
242 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 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.
29 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 38 and 66 more.