220 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-44, ride through bars 45-49, hi-hat through bars 50-55, ride through bars 56-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-80, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-49, 56-61 and 81-97, and 11 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 51 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
155 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
220 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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.
22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 51 more.