153 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-29, ride through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35, ride through bars 36-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-41, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 54-56, and 5 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
46
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 7, 15, 23 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
170 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 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.
11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 7, 15, 23 and 28 more.