101 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-64 and ride through bars 65-69, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-26 -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
13 14
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x--x--x--x--x-----------------|x-----x-----------------x-----x--x--------x-----|10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 28, 40, 44, 48, 55 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
155 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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.
10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 28, 40, 44, 48, 55 and 13 more.