337 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 7:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-110, silence through bars 111-133, hi-hat through bars 134-161, snare through bars 162-192, hi-hat through bars 193-194 and silence through bars 195-196, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
39 40
1...........2...........3...........4...........5........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........
CC |x-----------------x-----------------------------------------|x-----------------x-----------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------x-----------o-----------|------------------------------------o-----------x-----------|
SD |------x-----------------x-----------------x-----------x-----|------x-----------------x-----------------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------x-----------|x-----------------x-----------------x-----------x-----------|12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 40, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 67 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.
75 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.
337 bars, about 7:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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.
12 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 40, 42, 46, 50, 54, 58 and 36 more.