229 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-13, snare through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-21, snare through bars 22-24 and ride through bars 25-32, and 26 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 52-53, 55-56 and 65-66, and 11 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
52 53
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---x---x-x-|x---x---x-x-x---|22 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 57 more.
It cuts the song into 75 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
229 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 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.
22 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 57 more.