288 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 29 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 67-72, and 13 more places -- 27.4% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|22 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 54 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
240 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.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
288 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 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.
22 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 54 more.