171 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-47, hi-hat through bars 48-50 and ride through bars 51-66, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24, 28-30 and 36-38, and 4 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
28 29
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---|x---g---x-------|
SD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
T2 |----------------|------------xx--|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---xx--xx|25 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16 and 51 more.
It cuts the song into 85 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
25 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16 and 51 more.