178 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 178 BPM, 3:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-53 and silence through bars 54-60, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 9 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
37
1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|18 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 19, 20, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 18 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.
178 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
178 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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.
18 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 19, 20, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 18 more.