117 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 245 BPM, 1:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, toms through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-38, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 85-86, 89-90 and 93-94, and 1 more place -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
85 86
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---------------|
HH |--------------------------------|--------------------o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---x---x---x---x---|----x---x---x---x---x---x---xx-x|
BD |x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
245 BPM, in 3/4, 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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.
14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14 and 20 more.