183 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-50, ride through bars 51-64, hi-hat through bars 65-86, ride through bars 87-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-104, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-56, 58-63 and 87-92, and 3 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
51 52
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x-X---x-|X---x---X-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------f---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 86, 152, 160, 182 and 183.
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.
168 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
183 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 86, 152, 160, 182 and 183.