189 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-48, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 69 and 87, and 19 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--|17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 38 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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.
17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 38 more.