229 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-39, snare through bars 40-44 and silence through bars 45-46, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48, 153-155 and 157-159, and 6 more places -- 10.2% 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.......
HH |o---------------o---------------|
SD |x-------------------------------|
BD |------------------------x-------|24 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 37, 42 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 91 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.
270 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.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
229 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 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.
24 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 37, 42 and 29 more.