234 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33 and snare through bars 34-36, and 31 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-8, 12-17 and 21-27, and 9 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
4
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|23 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 28, 34, 35 and 57 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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 sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
234 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
23 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 28, 34, 35 and 57 more.