204 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-20, toms through bars 21-23, snare through bars 24-29 and ride through bars 30-45, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51, 53 and 55, and 11 more places -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
51
1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |------------x---------------x---------------x---------------x---|
SD |------------x-----------x-------------------x-----------x-------|
BD |----x-----------------------x-------x-----------------------x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 75 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.
205 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
204 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.