213 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 5:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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.
toms through bars 1-26, snare through bars 27-41, toms through bars 42-62, snare through bars 63-95, toms through bars 96-97 and ride through bars 98-105, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 63-69, and 2 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
27 28
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----------------|------------------x-----------------------------|11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 15, 21, 34 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
169 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
213 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 19 times: bars 1, 3, 9, 15, 21, 34 and 13 more.