219 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, ride through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72, silence through bars 73-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-85, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 104-133 and 152-165 -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 48, 56, 86, 87, 102, 103 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
185 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
219 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 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.
8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 48, 56, 86, 87, 102, 103 and 12 more.