244 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-81 and ride through bars 82-97, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18, 20-24 and 26, and 9 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 19, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
244 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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.
11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 19, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 21 more.