170 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, ride through bars 16-23, snare through bars 24-49, ride through bars 50-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-59 and 170-176 -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
53 54
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x-----x-----------------x--x--------x-----|x--x--x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----x--x--x--x--|15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 49 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 82 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.
190 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
170 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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.
15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 32, 49 and 25 more.