193 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-64 and toms through bars 65-68, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
192 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
193 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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.
11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 13 and 32 more.