199 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17 and ride through bars 18-21, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33, 37-38 and 41-42, and 9 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
37 38
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------x-----------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
SD |x--x--x--x--------------------------x--x--x--x--|------------------------x--x--x--x--------------|
T1 |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------------------x--x--x--x--|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|------------x-----------------------------------|
FT |------------------------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--x--x--x--x--x--x--|8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 34, 35, 38, 39, 43, 46 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
225 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
199 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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.
8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 34, 35, 38, 39, 43, 46 and 29 more.