137 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-43, ride through bars 44-46, hi-hat through bars 47-51, ride through bars 52-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-79, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-95 and 97-111 -- 16.4% 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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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-----x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 18, 26, 30, 35, 36 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
85 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.
137 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 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.
12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 18, 26, 30, 35, 36 and 13 more.