223 bars at 236 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-85, ride through bars 86-87, hi-hat through bars 88-105, silence through bars 106-109, hi-hat through bars 110-117 and silence through bars 118-120, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-12 and 32-39 -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
6 7
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------x-----|
HH |------------x-----------o-----------------------|o-----------o-----------o-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------x--x--------x--x--------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------------x-----------------------|x-----------x-----------x-----------------x-----|3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 23, 55 and 59.
It cuts the song into 76 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.
236 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.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
223 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 27 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.
3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 23, 55 and 59.