191 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 4:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-12, silence through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-38, toms through bars 39-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-69, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 168-170, 172-174 and 176-178, and 1 more place -- 6.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
168 169
1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----o-----------o-----|o-----------o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|x-----x--x--------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x--------------x--------|------------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|23 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 26, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44 and 53 more.
It cuts the song into 75 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.
160 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
191 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 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.
23 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 26, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44 and 53 more.