210 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-9, toms through bars 10-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, toms through bars 39-42 and snare through bars 43-53, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
25 26
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------X---------------|----------------X---------------|
HH |--------o---------------x--x-x--|o-------o---------------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|-----x----------x---------------|
BD |x------------x------------------|--------x--x-x----------x--x-x--|16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 24 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.
185 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
210 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 24 more.