191 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-42, snare through bars 43-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-80, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 137-141, 143 and 145-149, and 4 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
137
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----xxxxx-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxx-x-x-x-|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 34 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
178 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.
88 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.
191 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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.
20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 34 and 33 more.