218 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-33, silence through bars 34-48 and kick and crashes through bars 49-54, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 90-91, and 3 more places -- 15.8% 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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 57, 69, 73 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 73 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.
165 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
218 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 57, 69, 73 and 15 more.