255 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-23, hi-hat through bars 24-54, snare through bars 55-64, ride through bars 65-80, hi-hat through bars 81-96 and ride through bars 97-114, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 193-199, 201-207 and 209-215, and 5 more places -- 24.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
193
1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x---x-|12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 24, 26, 37, 38, 39, 46 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
205 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
255 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 24, 26, 37, 38, 39, 46 and 27 more.