113 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 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.
toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-9, silence through bars 10-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-21 and silence through bars 22-26, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 6 and 13, and 4 more places -- 7.1% 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-------------------------------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
T2 |--------x---x---x---x-----------|
FT |--------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-------------------------------|11 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 8, 20, 25, 26, 28, 34 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
187 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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.
11 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 8, 20, 25, 26, 28, 34 and 43 more.