165 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 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.
kick and crashes through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-17, silence through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-49, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 21 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
26
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------x-----------x--x--------|12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 23, 25, 29 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 23, 25, 29 and 20 more.