132 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-50, ride through bars 51-63, hi-hat through bars 64-92 and snare through bars 93-108, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-14, 17-18 and 21, and 4 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
13 14
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |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--|3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 50, 51, 59, 60, 61, 89 and 1 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.
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.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 23 sittings, about 22 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.
3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 50, 51, 59, 60, 61, 89 and 1 more.