211 bars at 199 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, ride through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-52, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 6 more places -- 5.4% 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-----------------------------|35 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 26, 30, 33 and 58 more.
It cuts the song into 98 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.
199 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
211 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 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.
35 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 26, 30, 33 and 58 more.