244 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, ride through bars 18-31, toms through bars 32-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-49, and 33 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-49 and 52-53, and 11 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
53
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 73 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.
160 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
244 bars, about 6:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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.
16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.