180 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41 and ride through bars 42-49, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 7 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
26 27
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x---x-----|--xx----xxxxxxxx|18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 37, 45, 49 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 67 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.
160 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
180 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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.
18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 37, 45, 49 and 22 more.