395 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 6:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, ride through bars 10-23, snare through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-47 and ride through bars 48-67, and 42 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 20, and 21 more places -- 23.4% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|29 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 24, 25, 27 and 89 more.
It cuts the song into 84 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.
240 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
395 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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.
29 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 24, 25, 27 and 89 more.