217 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, toms through bars 57-72 and snare through bars 73-104, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 9 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x---------x-|--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxx--xxxxxx|xx--xxxxxxxx--xx|9 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 69, 70 and 40 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
176 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
217 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 69, 70 and 40 more.