227 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-24, and 28 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-16, 29-32 and 48-50, and 14 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
13 14
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|o---------------o-----------------------------------------------|
SD |x-------x-----------------------x-------------------------------|x-------x-------------------------------------------------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------X---------------X---------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------X---------------X---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---X---x---x---x---X---x---x---x---|14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 20 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 74 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.
205 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.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
227 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 25 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.
14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 8, 12, 20 and 24 more.