68 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-33, snare through bars 34-55, hi-hat through bars 56-64 and silence through bars 65-68.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32 -- 25% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------x-----|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----------o-----o-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 33, 50 and 60.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
220 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
68 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 33, 50 and 60.