243 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 6:01 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, toms through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, ride through bars 28-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-45, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 8, and 38 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|29 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 85 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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.
162 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 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
243 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 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.
29 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 85 more.