148 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-14, silence through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-56, snare through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-74 and snare through bars 75-82, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 18 more places -- 14.6% 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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HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------------|14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 32, 56, 57, 58, 74, 86 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
172 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 32, 56, 57, 58, 74, 86 and 16 more.