185 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-56, ride through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-96, ride through bars 97-113, hi-hat through bars 114-121 and ride through bars 122-125, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 33-52 and 73-92 -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |X-x-----X-x-----|11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 56, 71 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
160 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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.
11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 56, 71 and 16 more.