161 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-46, ride through bars 47-69, snare through bars 70-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-93, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
27
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--X---X---X---X-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 46, 58, 70, 74, 78 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 46, 58, 70, 74, 78 and 8 more.