170 bars at 246 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and snare through bars 43-50, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 9 more places -- 15.2% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|24 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
246 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
170 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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.
24 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 37 more.