117 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-44, hi-hat through bars 45-47 and ride through bars 48-51, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 6 more places -- 23.1% 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...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x---------------------------------------|10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 28, 36, 51 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
194 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 17 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.
10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 28, 36, 51 and 30 more.