159 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, 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.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-120, kick and crashes through bars 121-126 and hi-hat through bars 127-159.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 95-117 and 127 -- 24.5% 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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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 118, 123, 126, 158 and 159.
It cuts the song into 40 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 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 118, 123, 126, 158 and 159.