165 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-165.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 58-64, and 6 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
33 34
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|g-x-x-x-x-x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 105, 112, 113, 121 and 154.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
168 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.
65 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.
165 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 105, 112, 113, 121 and 154.