168 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42 and snare through bars 43-46, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 83 and 89-91, and 7 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
33
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 36 more.
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.
208 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.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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.
15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 and 36 more.