146 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42, toms through bars 43-44, snare through bars 45-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-81, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-----------o---|------------o-----------o-------|
SD |--------x-------x-----------x---|------------x-----------x---x-x-|
BD |x---x-------x-------x---x-------|----x---x-----------x-----------|9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 23, 24, 32, 43 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
200 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.
68 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.
146 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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.
9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 23, 24, 32, 43 and 10 more.