134 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-24, ride through bars 25-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-67, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-36, 41-48 and 72-79, and 12 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
29 30
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|--x-x-x---------|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x--------|
T2 |----------------|--------xxxxxxxx|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---------|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 133 and 134.
It cuts the song into 19 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 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 133 and 134.