173 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-28, ride through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-63, snare through bars 64-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-84, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 43-49 and 75-81, and 2 more places -- 17.2% 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-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
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BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 18, 34, 42, 50, 66 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
173 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 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.
16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 18, 34, 42, 50, 66 and 21 more.