110 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, ride through bars 17-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-32 and snare through bars 33-34, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 88-89, 91-92 and 94-95, and 1 more place -- 6.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
88 89
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............
CC |X---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------X-------------------------------|--------------------------------X---------------|
BD |X-----------x-----------x---------------x-----------x-----------|x---------------x-----------x-----------x-------|16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
220 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
110 bars, about 1:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 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.
16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 30 more.