226 bars at 245 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 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 how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 30-36 and 46-53, and 16 more places -- 33.8% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 28, 37 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
245 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
226 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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.
17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 21, 28, 37 and 26 more.