177 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, ride through bars 21-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-24, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 40, and 14 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.
34
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
204 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.
12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25 and 19 more.