171 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, toms through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-45, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 22-24, and 3 more places -- 10.3% 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
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--xx-------xx--|--xxxx--xxxxxxxx|16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 12, 20, 21 and 56 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
164 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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.
16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 12, 20, 21 and 56 more.