239 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 4:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-19, snare through bars 20-21, toms through bars 22-23, ride through bars 24-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-35, and 35 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 172-187 and 192-202 -- 11.7% 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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1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 15, 20 and 58 more.
It cuts the song into 77 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.
190 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
239 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 21 sittings, about 29 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.
22 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 15, 20 and 58 more.