174 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-25, ride through bars 26-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-49 and ride through bars 50-59, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 28, and 14 more places -- 12.4% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------X---------------|
BD |x---x---x---------------x-------|7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 29, 49, 53, 66, 67 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
250 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
174 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 21 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.
7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 29, 49, 53, 66, 67 and 18 more.