145 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-23, snare through bars 24-30, toms through bars 31-33, snare through bars 34-36 and toms through bars 37-40, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 79-81, and 4 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
41 42
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|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---------------x---x-----------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 10 more.