94 bars at 252 BPM -- fast, and 1:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-53, snare through bars 54-60, hi-hat through bars 61-77, silence through bars 78-82 and snare through bars 83-94.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-28 -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
6 7
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r----r--r---|----r----r------|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|x-x-------x----x|6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
252 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
94 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37 and 15 more.