112 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-86, ride through bars 87-96, snare through bars 97-108 and silence through bars 109-112.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
29 30
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----------x-----x-----|------x-----x-----------x-----x-----------x-----|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 36, 51 and 104.
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.
185 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
112 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, 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 6 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 36, 51 and 104.