185 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-39, toms through bars 40-47, hi-hat through bars 48-55, toms through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-65, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 50-52, and 9 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
42 43
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-x-------------|
RD |----------------|----x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |----o---o---o---|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|25 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 48 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
165 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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.
25 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 48 more.