165 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-83, toms through bars 84-85, hi-hat through bars 86-87, toms through bars 88-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-97, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 146-152 and 154-160 -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
146 147
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------x---x-------|
RD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
HH |x-x---x-x-x---xxxxx---x-x-x---x-|x-x---xxxxx---xxx-x---x-x-x---x-|
FT |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----------x---x-------|
BD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 19, 35, 37, 47, 65 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
174 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 19, 35, 37, 47, 65 and 20 more.