113 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-96 and snare through bars 97-113.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|x---x-------x-------x-------x---|5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 32, 36, 40, 64, 68 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
175 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, 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 10 times: bars 8, 32, 36, 40, 64, 68 and 4 more.