77 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 1:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34 and snare through bars 35-36, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 7 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----x-----------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
270 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
77 bars, about 1:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 14 more.