241 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72, ride through bars 73-88 and toms through bars 89-90, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 17 more places -- 16.8% 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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CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|26 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 68 more.
It cuts the song into 77 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.
215 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 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
241 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 25 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.
26 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 68 more.