120 bars at 228 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, snare through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-52 and ride through bars 53-60, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 -- 17.6% 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.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-x---x---x---x---x---x-x-x---x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 52, 57, 64, 74, 75 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
228 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.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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.
5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 52, 57, 64, 74, 75 and 3 more.