181 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, snare through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-122, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 29-34, and 7 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 35, 36, 68, 84 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
181 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 25 times: bars 20, 28, 35, 36, 68, 84 and 19 more.