282 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:55 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.
silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 24 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-30 and 33-39, and 17 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|--------x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|34 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 40, 47, 48 and 73 more.
It cuts the song into 84 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.
190 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
282 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 24 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.
34 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 40, 47, 48 and 73 more.