159 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49, snare through bars 50-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-69, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-20, and 7 more places -- 19.7% 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---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x----------x--------------------x----------x----|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 29, 61, 69, 70, 71, 72 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
175 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.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 29, 61, 69, 70, 71, 72 and 16 more.