186 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 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.
hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 41 and 43, and 10 more places -- 16.3% 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
CC |x-----------x-x-|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 20, 26, 27 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
220 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 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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.
19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 20, 26, 27 and 33 more.