85 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 1:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-20 and ride through bars 21-36, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
21 22
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-------x-------|x-------x---x---|
BD |------------x-x-|--xxxxxx--xx----|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 3, 9 and 11.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
184 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
85 bars, about 1:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 11 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 3, 9 and 11.