166 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
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, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and ride through bars 49-64, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-8 and 17-24, and 5 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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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--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 56, 64, 68, 72, 80 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
200 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 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 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.
8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 56, 64, 68, 72, 80 and 6 more.