192 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-22, hi-hat through bars 23-46, toms through bars 47-51 and snare through bars 52-57, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 68-74, 77 and 79, and 6 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
68 69
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-----------|x-x-x-----x-----|15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
179 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
192 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 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.
15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 32 more.