123 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-38, hi-hat through bars 39-70 and ride through bars 71-95, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 25-28 and 79, and 3 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------X---X-|
RD |--x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|g-x-g-x---------|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|x---xx--x---xx--|18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
190 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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.
18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 29 more.