115 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-22, toms through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30 and snare through bars 31-33, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 69 and 72, and 6 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------------------------------o-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----x------------x------x---------------------x-------x-------|16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 22, 23 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
180 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
115 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.
16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 22, 23 and 30 more.