161 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-20 and toms through bars 21-22, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 20 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
33
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
RD |g---g---g---g---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
205 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 32 more.