187 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, snare through bars 26-46, toms through bars 47-49, hi-hat through bars 50-63 and toms through bars 64-65, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 162-164, 166-168 and 170-172, and 3 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
162 163
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-|
BD |x--x--xx---x----|--xxxxxx--x-x---|21 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 25, 29, 33 and 38 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
195 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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.
21 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 25, 29, 33 and 38 more.