107 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-55 and ride through bars 56-59, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24-33 and 44-51 -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
24 25
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........
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-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 107.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
196 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
107 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 107.