129 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-71 and silence through bars 72-73, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-39, 57-71 and 115-129 -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x---------x-x-x-|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x-x-x-x-------|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
FT |x---------------|x-----------x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 20, 23 and 24.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
210 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.
85 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.
129 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 20, 23 and 24.