204 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, toms through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-49, toms through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-53, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 32-34, and 4 more places -- 13.5% 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...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x-----------x--x--------x-----------|8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 50, 51, 54 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
224 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
204 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 50, 51, 54 and 8 more.