225 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 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 how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-20, snare through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and snare through bars 35-43, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-41, 85-89 and 135-140, and 2 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
36
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 20, 35, 42, 60, 62 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 76 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.
180 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
225 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 23 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.
17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 20, 35, 42, 60, 62 and 23 more.