155 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-94, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 62-66 and 139-146 -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
62 63
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---xx|18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 41, 51, 55 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
184 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 41, 51, 55 and 36 more.