230 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11-12, and 60 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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BD |x-x---x---------|3 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 54, 62, 78, 82, 94, 96 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
155 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
230 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 54, 62, 78, 82, 94, 96 and 11 more.