218 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-32, hi-hat through bars 33-63, snare through bars 64-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-121, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 158-217 -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
158
1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------|
SD |x-----------------------|
BD |--------x-x-x---x---x---|7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
175 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
218 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25 and 18 more.