147 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, ride through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-20 and silence through bars 21-22, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-12, 19 and 36-42, and 5 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
36 37
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--|6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 35, 43, 51, 61, 74, 82 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
147 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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 9 times: bars 35, 43, 51, 61, 74, 82 and 3 more.