221 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-11, ride through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-63 and toms through bars 64-69, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 52 and 56, and 14 more places -- 13.6% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxx--xxxxxx|26 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 50 more.
It cuts the song into 82 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.
230 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
221 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 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.
26 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 50 more.