117 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-24, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31, 39 and 41-47, and 4 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
41 42
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---------x-|----------------|
RD |----------------|----x---x---x---|
HH |--------x-o-----|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x---x-|--x---x-x-x---x-|
HF |------------x---|----------------|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 32, 40, 52 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
66 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.
117 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 32, 40, 52 and 8 more.