198 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 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 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-28, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 119-150 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
120
1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 48, 56 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
198 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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.
4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 48, 56 and 5 more.