153 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 3-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, ride through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-74 and silence through bars 75-81, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 103-117 and 135-149 -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
103
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 22, 26, 28, 30, 34 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
186 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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.
10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 22, 26, 28, 30, 34 and 11 more.