244 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-104, snare through bars 105-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-124, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 97-110 and 177-190 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
97 98
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------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-------|11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 32, 40, 80, 96, 144, 158 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 87 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.
190 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
244 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 30 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 32, 40, 80, 96, 144, 158 and 17 more.