241 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-44, toms through bars 45-46, hi-hat through bars 47-52 and snare through bars 53-54, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 174-175, 178-179 and 182-183, and 12 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
174 175
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x-x-|x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x-|------------|
BD |xx--x-xx---x|--x---x-xxxx|25 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 77 more.
It cuts the song into 77 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.
67 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.
241 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
25 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 77 more.