201 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-28, toms through bars 29-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, toms through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-58, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 19 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 18, 20, 36 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
160 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
201 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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.
19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 18, 20, 36 and 29 more.