197 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 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.
ride through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, ride through bars 45-66, hi-hat through bars 67-78, ride through bars 79-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-98, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 22 and 28, and 10 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 197.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
200 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
197 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 197.