170 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 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.
hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-40, snare through bars 41-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-125, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-72 and 96-111 -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
57 58
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|------------x---|
BD |xxx---xxx---xxx-|--xxx---xxxx----|21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
170 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 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.
21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 32 more.