166 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-39, ride through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-140, kick and crashes through bars 141-146, hi-hat through bars 147-155 and silence through bars 156-166.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 61-76, and 2 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 25, 29, 34 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
185 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 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.
10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 25, 29, 34 and 15 more.