196 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-42, snare through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-50, snare through bars 51-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-58, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-11 and 109-137 -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------f-------|--------f-------|
T2 |------------X-X-|----------------|
FT |x-x-x-x---x-----|x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
BD |X-----X---------|X-----X---------|12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 20, 44, 45, 51, 52 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
212 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
196 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.
12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 20, 44, 45, 51, 52 and 20 more.