144 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-26, snare through bars 27-46, hi-hat through bars 47-60, snare through bars 61-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-104, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-26 and 47-60 -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
13 14
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|----x-----------x---x-----------|5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 44, 61, 62 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
189 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 44, 61, 62 and 13 more.