208 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-9, ride through bars 10-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-20, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-42 and 78-83, and 3 more places -- 23% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17 and 34 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.
230 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
208 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 23 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.
20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 15, 16, 17 and 34 more.