166 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-30, toms through bars 31-34 and ride through bars 35-50, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 20-22 and 24, and 6 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
16 17
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|------xx--------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|x-xx----x--x--x-|14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 21, 61, 62 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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 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.
166 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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.
14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 21, 61, 62 and 27 more.