248 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, toms through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-20 and snare through bars 21-22, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 204-209, 212-213 and 216-217, and 1 more place -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 88 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.
180 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
248 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 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.
22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 45 more.