203 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-18 and ride through bars 19-35, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 25 and 29, and 14 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
21
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x-----------------------|15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 35 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
160 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.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
203 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 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.
15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 35 more.