214 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-65, hi-hat through bars 66-74, ride through bars 75-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-116, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 9 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
41 42
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------x----x-----x----|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-----------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----------------------|
BD |x----x--x--x-x--x----x--x--x-x--|x----x--x--x-x--x----x-----x----|6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
157 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
214 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 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 18 times: bars 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 12 more.