68 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24 and snare through bars 25-36, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-4, 31-32 and 61-68 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xxxx--xxxx--xxxx|--xxxx--xxxxxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
155 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
68 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 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.
8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19 and 17 more.