125 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-62, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
82
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 62, 112 and 116.
It cuts the song into 25 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 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 62, 112 and 116.