187 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, toms through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34 and toms through bars 35-36, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 29-31 and 33-34, and 11 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |------------x-----x-----|
HH |o-----o-----------------|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
174 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 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.
12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 37 more.