85 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 1:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-37, toms through bars 38-39 and ride through bars 40-57, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58-59, 62-76 and 78-83 -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
62 63
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-xx--xx--x-xxxx|-xx---xx--x-x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 24, 25, 29 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
85 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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.
10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 24, 25, 29 and 12 more.