184 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-56, hi-hat through bars 57-128, ride through bars 129-136 and kick and crashes through bars 137-140, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 11 more places -- 19.6% 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---------------|
BD |x---------------------------x---|16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 27, 28 and 35 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
185 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
184 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 27, 28 and 35 more.