154 bars at 239 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, ride through bars 14-24, toms through bars 25-29 and ride through bars 30-35, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 7, and 26 more places -- 19% 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.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|13 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 13, 24, 25 and 43 more.
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.
239 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 98 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
154 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 18 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 49 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 13, 24, 25 and 43 more.