249 bars at 254 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-46, toms through bars 47-48, silence through bars 49-50 and toms through bars 51-52, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-19, and 5 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 55 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
254 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
249 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 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.
16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 36, 55 and 17 more.