125 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-31, snare through bars 32-34 and toms through bars 35-38, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 48-49 and 88-89 -- 4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
48 49
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------x-x---------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------x---x---|----x-x-------x-x---x-------x---|9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 20, 35, 51, 72, 73 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, 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 13 times: bars 18, 20, 35, 51, 72, 73 and 7 more.