199 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-45, hi-hat through bars 46-49, snare through bars 50-63, ride through bars 64-79, snare through bars 80-97 and ride through bars 98-113, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 154-186 -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
154
1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
HH |----------------o-----------------------------------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|11 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22 and 44 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
202 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
199 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22 and 44 more.