182 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-68, ride through bars 69-71, kick and crashes through bars 72-73, hi-hat through bars 74-124 and ride through bars 125-128, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 34 more places -- 21.1% 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 |x---x---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |----g-----------x-------x-------|
BD |--------x---x---------------x---|6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 58, 59, 60, 64, 68, 71 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
170 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
182 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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.
6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 58, 59, 60, 64, 68, 71 and 19 more.