299 bars at 228 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-33, hi-hat through bars 34-51, ride through bars 52-67, hi-hat through bars 68-99, ride through bars 100-109 and hi-hat through bars 110-111, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54, 56-58 and 60-62, and 29 more places -- 18.9% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 67, 83, 91, 99, 107, 115 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
228 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.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
299 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 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.
8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 67, 83, 91, 99, 107, 115 and 18 more.