125 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-40, 45-52 and 105-108 -- 19.4% 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.......5.......6.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
240 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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.