194 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 3-7, snare through bars 8-14, hi-hat through bars 15-83, snare through bars 84-90, hi-hat through bars 91-108 and toms through bars 109-110, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 28 and 32-37, and 3 more places -- 13.1% 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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1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|28 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 89 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.
175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
194 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 28 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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.
28 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 36 more.