167 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29 and ride through bars 30-31, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 35, and 7 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
14
1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 32, 33, 54, 55, 66 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
168 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
167 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 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.
13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 17, 32, 33, 54, 55, 66 and 20 more.