118 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-11, snare through bars 12-19, toms through bars 20-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-24, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-64, 101-103 and 109-111 -- 7.6% 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---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x---------------x-------x-----------x---|14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 20, 21 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
215 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
118 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 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.
14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 20, 21 and 26 more.