248 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-29, toms through bars 30-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-56, and 24 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 82-84, and 6 more places -- 11.5% 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---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|27 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 28, 29 and 42 more.
It cuts the song into 83 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.
220 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
248 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
27 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 28, 29 and 42 more.