228 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, toms through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-136 and ride through bars 137-142, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-29, 31-35 and 37-41, and 17 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--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--|27 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 36 and 54 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.
160 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
228 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
27 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 36 and 54 more.