152 bars at 217 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-50, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 98-128 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
98 99
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|x-----x---x---x-|10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 27, 44, 65 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
217 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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.
10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 27, 44, 65 and 12 more.