166 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-39, toms through bars 40-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-45, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 109-111, 113-115 and 117-119, and 3 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
109
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|32 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 53 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
215 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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.
32 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 53 more.