243 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-33, silence through bars 34-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-93 and ride through bars 94-101, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 14 more places -- 29.7% 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-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|35 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 8, 12, 57, 65, 68, 69 and 52 more.
It cuts the song into 95 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.
165 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
243 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 29 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.
35 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 8, 12, 57, 65, 68, 69 and 52 more.