224 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64 and ride through bars 65-80, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 67-69 and 71-73, and 9 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
65
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|25 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 28, 31 and 51 more.
It cuts the song into 90 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.
190 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
224 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 27 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.
25 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 28, 31 and 51 more.