187 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-18, ride through bars 19-28, hi-hat through bars 29-41, ride through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-80, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 7 and 9, and 6 more places -- 13% 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...............
RD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
SD |---x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x--|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 18, 48, 62, 69, 76 and 9 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.
155 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 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.
9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 18, 48, 62, 69, 76 and 9 more.