103 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-56, snare through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-66 and ride through bars 67-74, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12, and 15 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-g--x--g----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 20, 21 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
164 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 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.
9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 20, 21 and 12 more.