162 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-44 and snare through bars 45-51, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 50 and 54, and 15 more places -- 13% 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-----------|9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 26, 52, 53, 60, 61 and 16 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.
195 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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.
9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 25, 26, 52, 53, 60, 61 and 16 more.