139 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7-9, and 25 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
3 4
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|X-g-x-g-x-g-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|--x-----x-x-----|6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 28, 44, 76, 92, 132 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
176 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 28, 44, 76, 92, 132 and 2 more.