163 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-75, snare through bars 76-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-108, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-83, 85-91 and 94, and 4 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
77
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 34, 42, 49 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
194 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 25, 26, 34, 42, 49 and 20 more.