166 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-19, hi-hat through bars 20-55, silence through bars 56-62, hi-hat through bars 63-70 and snare through bars 71-77, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 71-77, and 2 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|------x-----x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxx-x---x-|x---x---x-x-----|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 94, 128, 136 and 164.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
174 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 94, 128, 136 and 164.