81 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-23, ride through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-38, ride through bars 39-42 and snare through bars 43-54, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-38 and 55-70 -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 24, 54, 71, 72, 74 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
195 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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.
6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 24, 54, 71, 72, 74 and 5 more.