160 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, snare through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-41, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 98-99, 101-103 and 105-107, and 1 more place -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
98 99
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x----------x----x----------x----|x---------------x---------------x-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------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--------------------|26 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 73 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
160 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 23 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.
26 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 73 more.