234 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-43, snare through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-48, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-85, 87-89 and 119-121, and 8 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
83
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|26 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 44 more.
It cuts the song into 87 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.
190 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
234 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 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.
26 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16 and 44 more.