220 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-39, ride through bars 40-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65 and ride through bars 66-73, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34, and 22 more places -- 29.4% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 40 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
220 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 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.
16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 40 more.