187 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-40, 45-48 and 73-76, and 5 more places -- 16.8% 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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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 35 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
170 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.
84 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.
187 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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.
13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 35 and 25 more.