180 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 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.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-147, toms through bars 148-149 and ride through bars 150-165, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 51-57, and 5 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 42, 50 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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 sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
180 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 42, 50 and 22 more.