161 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-26, toms through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-30, toms through bars 31-33 and silence through bars 34-56, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
37 38
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--------------o-|----------------|
SD |--g-g-g-f-g-g---|g-g-g---x-g-gggg|
T2 |----------------|------x---------|
BD |x-----x---------|----------------|
HF |g---g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 56, 64, 68 and 14 more.
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.
208 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 56, 64, 68 and 14 more.