269 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 168 BPM, 4:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-47, toms through bars 48-49 and ride through bars 50-66, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-65, 96-111 and 171-173, and 8 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
50 51
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
RD |x-----x-----|x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----|------------|
T1 |------------|x-x---xx----|
T2 |------------|--------xx--|
FT |------------|----------xx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 15, 19, 22, 42, 46 and 44 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
168 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
269 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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.
15 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 15, 19, 22, 42, 46 and 44 more.