213 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 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 2-11, ride through bars 12-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-36 and ride through bars 37-44, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-90, 100-106 and 108-114, and 5 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
88
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|22 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 81 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
213 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 21 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.
22 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 81 more.