190 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-30 and toms through bars 31-37, and 26 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 10-11 and 14-15, and 12 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|x---------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|17 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 93 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
240 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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.
190 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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.
17 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 93 more.