317 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, ride through bars 27-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-80, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 59-65 and 67-71, and 24 more places -- 34.2% 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---xx--x---xx--|16 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 53 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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.
200 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
317 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 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.
16 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 53 more.