141 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-49, ride through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-72, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-9, 13-14 and 18-19, and 4 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
8 9
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|------------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
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--x--x--x--x-----------x--x--x--x--|13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 22, 23, 26, 27 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
224 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.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 22, 23, 26, 27 and 30 more.