165 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48 and ride through bars 49-52, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 13-15, and 21 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |----o-o-o-o-----|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 24, 52, 64, 74, 76 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
200 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 24, 52, 64, 74, 76 and 12 more.