224 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-32, and 26 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-59, 61-63 and 65-67, and 9 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
57 58
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------|o-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
T2 |--------x---x-------------------|--------------------------------|
FT |----------------x---x---x-------|--------x---x-------x---x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|13 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 15, 16, 33, 34, 38, 40 and 50 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
210 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
224 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 24 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.
13 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 15, 16, 33, 34, 38, 40 and 50 more.