287 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 5:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-51 and toms through bars 52-56, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 29 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
109 110
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----------|x-x-x-x---x-x---|16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 13, 21, 24, 32, 41, 42 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
216 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
287 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 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.
16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 13, 21, 24, 32, 41, 42 and 34 more.