145 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-35 and 37, and 7 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HF |----------------|------------x---|12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 40, 56 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
170 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.
12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 40, 56 and 15 more.