140 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-21 and kick and crashes through bars 22-23, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4-6 and 10-12, and 8 more places -- 20.1% 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-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 23, 32, 38 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 23, 32, 38 and 31 more.