224 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 3:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-41, ride through bars 42-47, toms through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-108, kick and crashes through bars 109-110 and silence through bars 111-114, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 10, and 24 more places -- 16.3% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------|19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 16, 17, 34, 38, 44 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 81 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.
200 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
224 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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.
19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 16, 17, 34, 38, 44 and 21 more.