128 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29, snare through bars 30-49, hi-hat through bars 50-59 and snare through bars 60-61, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 66-81, 107 and 109, and 2 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
66 67
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-----x-x---------x-----x-----|----x-----x-x-----------x---x---|7 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 26 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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.
7 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 26 more.