148 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-37, hi-hat through bars 38-44, ride through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-75, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16 and 99-104 -- 8.2% 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...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 35 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
210 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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.
18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 35 more.