204 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, snare through bars 49-64 and ride through bars 65-72, and 41 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-82, 85-86 and 89-90, and 20 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
81
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 14 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
212 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
204 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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.
10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 14 and 33 more.