252 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-41, toms through bars 42-44 and ride through bars 45-56, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 9 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
37
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------x---------------x-------|
SD |----g-g---------x---------------|
BD |--------x-------------------x---|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 33, 34, 57, 58, 74, 113 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
155 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
252 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 33, 34, 57, 58, 74, 113 and 17 more.