191 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-11, snare through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32 and ride through bars 33-48, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-46 and 140-153 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
33 34
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
RD |x---x-------------------x---x-------------------|x---x-------------------x---x---x-------x-------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------x-------------------x---|
BD |x---x---x---------------x---x---x---------------|x---x---x---------------x---x---x---x---x---x---|12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
176 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
191 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 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.
12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 24 more.