114 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-42, hi-hat through bars 43-66 and ride through bars 67-74, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-16, 19-24 and 44-49, and 1 more place -- 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.
11 12
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-o-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|x-----x-x-------|7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 29, 33, 41 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
155 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
114 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 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.
7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 29, 33, 41 and 6 more.