134 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-39, hi-hat through bars 40-56, snare through bars 57-66, hi-hat through bars 67-84 and silence through bars 85-99, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-11, 14-19 and 22-28, and 1 more place -- 23.4% 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-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x---x---x-x-x-x-x---x---|x-x-x-x-x---x-------------------|16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 37, 39, 41 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 21, 29, 37, 39, 41 and 19 more.