211 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 5:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-28, toms through bars 29-31 and kick and crashes through bars 32-35, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-28, 158 and 179-184, and 1 more place -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|29 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 54 more.
It cuts the song into 84 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.
157 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
211 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
29 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 54 more.