61 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-37, snare through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-45 and silence through bars 46-47, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-10 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
3 4
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxx-xxx-----xxx-|xx-xxxx-xxx-xxx-|5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 18, 21, 25, 26 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
160 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
61 bars, about 1:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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.
5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 18, 21, 25, 26 and 9 more.