163 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-101, ride through bars 102-115, snare through bars 116-117, hi-hat through bars 118-122, snare through bars 123-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-140, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 27 more places -- 18.6% 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
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x------x--x-|
BD |x--x----x-x--x--|11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 26 more.