189 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-46, hi-hat through bars 47-71, snare through bars 72-74, hi-hat through bars 75-80 and ride through bars 81-94, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 15 more places -- 23.8% 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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1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---x---x-x-|17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 26, 30, 32 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 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.
17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 26, 30, 32 and 36 more.