274 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-27 and toms through bars 28-29, and 29 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-35, 38-43 and 86-91, and 4 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
30 31
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---xxxx|20 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 54 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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.
218 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
274 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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.
20 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 54 more.