212 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-36 and toms through bars 37-38, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 10.8% 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.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x---|15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 20, 28, 30, 37, 38, 39 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
230 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
212 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 26 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.
15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 20, 28, 30, 37, 38, 39 and 32 more.