65 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-18, snare through bars 19-27, ride through bars 28-31, snare through bars 32-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-59, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12, 14-16 and 18, and 1 more place -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
14 15
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--x-x---x-x-----|
HH |o---o---o---o---|----------------|
SD |--------x-------|--x-x---x-x-x---|
T2 |----------------|-------------x--|
FT |----------------|--------------xx|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|xx----xx--------|9 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
160 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
65 bars, about 1:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 30 more.