142 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-78 and ride through bars 79-80, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 9 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 60, 67, 68, 72, 84, 88 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
207 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
142 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 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.
8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 60, 67, 68, 72, 84, 88 and 6 more.