183 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-22, snare through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-36 and snare through bars 37-58, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 85-87, 89-104 and 113-126 -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
89 90
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--|6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 11, 79, 80, 106, 108 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
200 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
183 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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.
6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 11, 79, 80, 106, 108 and 9 more.