144 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 57-63 and 105-106, and 3 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 44, 48, 64 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
165 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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.
7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 44, 48, 64 and 7 more.