230 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-38, and 26 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 161-167, 169-175 and 178, and 3 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
161 162
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-|----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-|
SD |----------------------x-------------------------|----------------------x-------------------------|
BD |------x-------x---x-----------x---x-------x-----|------x-----------x-------x---x---x-----------x-|9 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 51, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58 and 42 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
230 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 30 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.
9 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 51, 52, 53, 55, 57, 58 and 42 more.