155 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, toms through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-44, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 47 and 51, and 5 more places -- 7.8% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|24 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 34, 40 and 47 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
160 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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.
24 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 34, 40 and 47 more.