238 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, toms through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-45, toms through bars 46-53 and snare through bars 54-77, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 22-45 and 54-77, and 1 more place -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|16 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 47 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
210 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.
82 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.
238 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
16 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 47 more.