178 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-23, hi-hat through bars 24-30, ride through bars 31-38, silence through bars 39-42 and snare through bars 43-48, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-48, 140-146 and 156-162 -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
43 44
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x---x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
SD |x-------x---x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 19, 21, 22 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 74 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.
210 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
178 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 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.
16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 19, 21, 22 and 23 more.