188 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-28, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 17 more places -- 23.5% 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+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 14 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
235 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
188 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 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.
9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 14 and 22 more.