129 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-15, ride through bars 16-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35, snare through bars 36-37 and ride through bars 38-42, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 9-10 and 13-14, and 2 more places -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o-------------------------------o---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|x---x-----------------------------------------------------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------x---x-------------------------------------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------x---x---------------------------|
FT |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------x---x-----------|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|--------x---x-----------x---x-----------x---x-----------x---x---|17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 and 41 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
225 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 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.
17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 and 41 more.