360 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 6:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-112, silence through bars 113-146, ride through bars 147-195, silence through bars 196-198, ride through bars 199-296 and hi-hat through bars 297-312, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 29 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1
1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 35 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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 sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
360 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 35 more.