181 bars at 234 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-15, ride through bars 16-29, hi-hat through bars 30-108 and ride through bars 109-113, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-24, 44-50 and 68-74, and 4 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
44 45
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|----------------|
HH |----------------|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--------x-------|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|13 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 27, 29, 30, 35, 39 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
234 BPM, in 4/4, 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.
97 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.
181 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 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.
13 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 13, 27, 29, 30, 35, 39 and 32 more.