115 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, snare through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-33, ride through bars 34-45 and snare through bars 46-53, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 86, 88 and 90, and 2 more places -- 11% 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............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
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BD |--------------------------------x-----------------------x-------|x---------------x-----------------------------------------------|11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 21, 41, 46 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
165 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
115 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 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.
11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 21, 41, 46 and 11 more.