249 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, ride through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-70, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 29-35, and 11 more places -- 23.7% 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.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|27 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 25 and 53 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
210 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
249 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 24 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.
27 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 24, 25 and 53 more.