253 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, ride through bars 14-15 and hi-hat through bars 16-17, and 50 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-13, 17 and 20-21, and 13 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
12 13
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------x---------|----x-----------|
HH |o-o-o---o-o-o-o-|o-o---o-o-o-----|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-x---x|
T2 |----------------|------------xx--|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-xx-x|16 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 26, 27 and 68 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
224 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
253 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 27 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.
16 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 26, 27 and 68 more.