239 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 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 how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 3-22, ride through bars 23-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62, toms through bars 63-71, ride through bars 72-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-89, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 8 more places -- 14.3% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
239 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 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.
18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 36 more.