124 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, ride through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-23 and ride through bars 24-25, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-74, 77-78 and 81-82, and 5 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
73
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 58, 66, 70, 72, 104 and 124.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
200 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
124 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 58, 66, 70, 72, 104 and 124.