113 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-23, ride through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-46, snare through bars 47-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-76, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 6 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
12 13
1.......2.......3... 1.......2.......3.......4...
CC |x-------------------|----------------x-------x---|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-------------|
SD |-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx---xxxx----|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------x---|5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
156 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 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.
5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 9 more.