185 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42 and ride through bars 43-44, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-64, 97-112 and 121-134 -- 24.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
49
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 20, 23 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
175 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 20, 23 and 36 more.