204 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, ride through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-30 and silence through bars 31-33, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-18, 20 and 22-24, and 14 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
14
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
HH |------------o-----------------------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 13, 19, 21, 27, 33 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
182 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.
86 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.
204 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 13, 19, 21, 27, 33 and 19 more.