189 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, toms through bars 57-60, snare through bars 61-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-84, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 141-147, 149-151 and 153-155, and 7 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
141
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 32, 60, 92, 120, 148, 164 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
212 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 19 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 32, 60, 92, 120, 148, 164 and 2 more.