95 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-29, snare through bars 30-32, ride through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-72, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 37-40 and 43, and 6 more places -- 29.5% 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...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 36, 42, 44 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
190 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
95 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 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.
13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 36, 42, 44 and 15 more.