231 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34 and ride through bars 35-46, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57, 99-105 and 115-116, and 4 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
51
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-----------x---x---|17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 15, 16, 26 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 73 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.
208 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.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
231 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 22 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.
17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 15, 16, 26 and 24 more.