240 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-20, ride through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-44, toms through bars 45-46 and ride through bars 47-62, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 79-109, 134 and 136, and 11 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
79 80
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|x---x-x---x-xxxx|8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 19, 20, 27, 28, 35, 36 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
240 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 19, 20, 27, 28, 35, 36 and 30 more.