250 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-46, ride through bars 47-52 and snare through bars 53-65, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-86, 88-90 and 104-106, and 9 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
84
1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 38, 39 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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 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 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
250 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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.
6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 38, 39 and 19 more.