157 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-25 and ride through bars 26-43, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 30-31 and 33-35, and 16 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
26 27
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------|x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 52, 68, 76 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 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.
5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 52, 68, 76 and 4 more.