138 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-42, snare through bars 43-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-85, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-56, 58-60 and 62-64, and 8 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
54 55
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------x-----|------------------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------|x-----x-----------------------x-----------x-----|8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 20, 28, 57, 61, 65 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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.
8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 20, 28, 57, 61, 65 and 10 more.