194 bars at 239 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 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 9-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and ride through bars 42-45, and 24 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 8 more places -- 10% 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.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x--x-x----------x--x-x----------|11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
239 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
194 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 26 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.
11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25 and 14 more.