184 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-62, and 26 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 93-106 and 169-179 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
93 94
1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------|x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x---|------------x-x-----x---|5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 45, 76, 84, 92 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
184 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 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.
5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 45, 76, 84, 92 and 4 more.