364 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 7:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28 and snare through bars 29-32, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 130-136, 138-145 and 300-306, and 3 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
130 131
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------x---------------x-------|x-------x---------------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------|x-------x---------------x---x---|21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 40, 54 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 92 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.
180 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
364 bars, about 7:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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.
21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 40, 54 and 32 more.