130 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 3-28, hi-hat through bars 29-66, ride through bars 67-71, hi-hat through bars 72-98, ride through bars 99-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-110, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-59 -- 8.7% 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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BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 44, 60, 62 and 13 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.
180 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 44, 60, 62 and 13 more.