104 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, ride through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-35 and snare through bars 36-43, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 36-37 and 40-43, and 1 more place -- 15.4% 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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 18, 33, 34, 35, 51 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
170 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 24 sittings, about 22 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.
8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 18, 33, 34, 35, 51 and 4 more.