139 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-33, hi-hat through bars 34-53, ride through bars 54-68, hi-hat through bars 69-84, ride through bars 85-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-119, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 28-33 and 120-125, and 1 more place -- 16.5% 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 |xxx-x-x-xxx-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 43, 45, 51, 53, 74, 76 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
190 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 17 sittings, about 21 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.
4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 43, 45, 51, 53, 74, 76 and 7 more.