253 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-51, hi-hat through bars 52-54 and ride through bars 55-63, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 141-155, 157-171 and 179-180, and 2 more places -- 22.4% 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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HH |o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---|17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 35, 42, 43 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
225 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
253 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 22 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.
17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 35, 42, 43 and 24 more.