153 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 3-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, silence through bars 39-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58 and silence through bars 59-60, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-76 and 109-124 -- 22.2% 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.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 151, 152 and 153.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
160 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 151, 152 and 153.