156 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-43, toms through bars 44-45, ride through bars 46-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-53, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 3 more places -- 11.5% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |---------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|23 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 38 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
170 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.
94 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.
156 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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.
23 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 38 more.