218 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-31, snare through bars 32-62, toms through bars 63-64, silence through bars 65-68, snare through bars 69-71 and toms through bars 72-75, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-33, 35 and 37, and 9 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17 18
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x---x-------x-------x---|----x---x-------x-------x---x---|11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 68, 72, 96, 104, 105, 106 and 16 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.
250 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
218 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 68, 72, 96, 104, 105, 106 and 16 more.