191 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 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, hi-hat through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-91, ride through bars 92-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-115, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 12-17 and 20-26, and 6 more places -- 71.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--x---xx--x---|4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 11, 18, 19, 27, 188 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 14 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 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 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
191 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 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.
4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 11, 18, 19, 27, 188 and 3 more.