99 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-15, hi-hat through bars 16-23, ride through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33 and snare through bars 34-43, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-21 and 29-31, and 4 more places -- 19% 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-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 28, 35, 36, 40, 41 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
160 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 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.
10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 28, 35, 36, 40, 41 and 16 more.