181 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10 and ride through bars 11-12, and 33 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 7 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
49 50
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----x-----o-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----x-----------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|x-----------x-----x-----------------x-----------|29 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 42, 46, 48 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 74 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.
168 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 28 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.
29 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 16, 31, 32, 42, 46, 48 and 31 more.