165 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-39, toms through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-46 and snare through bars 47-49, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 15 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------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--|39 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 56 more.
It cuts the song into 82 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.
160 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 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.
39 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 56 more.