157 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-58, snare through bars 59-63, hi-hat through bars 64-81, snare through bars 82-83, hi-hat through bars 84-87 and snare through bars 88-91, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 30-40 and 118-119, and 2 more places -- 28.8% 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-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 58, 89, 104, 120 and 129.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 58, 89, 104, 120 and 129.