157 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
ride through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-49, snare through bars 50-65, ride through bars 66-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-93, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 50-56, and 3 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
18 19
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------X-----------|------------X-----X-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-----------x-----|x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 15, 17, 25 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
155 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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.
10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 15, 17, 25 and 13 more.