279 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 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.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-36, ride through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-72, ride through bars 73-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-89, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 104 and 121-126, and 7 more places -- 20.8% 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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BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 76 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.
220 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.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
279 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 24 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.
15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 25 more.