152 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-37, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 66-68, and 5 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
66 67
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-xx-x-x--|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---xx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11 and 42 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
180 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.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 11 and 42 more.