131 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-33, silence through bars 34-36, snare through bars 37-42, hi-hat through bars 43-102 and kick and crashes through bars 103-105, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 45 and 47, and 27 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
43
1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 23, 31, 37, 38, 50 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
200 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 23, 31, 37, 38, 50 and 16 more.