242 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, ride through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 114-128, 130-137 and 142-149 -- 12.9% 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...........
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BD |--X--X--X--X--X--X--X--------X-----------------X|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 4 and 5.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
188 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 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
242 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 4 and 5.