178 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, toms through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62 and snare through bars 63-85, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-5, 7 and 10-11, and 6 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
4 5
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----X-X-----X---|X-X-X---X---X---|
SD |xxg-x-x-gggg-gg-|x-x-x-gg-ggg-ggg|
BD |---x-x-x----x--x|-x-x-x--x---x---|12 fills to learn, played 142 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15 and 136 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
155 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
178 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 142 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15 and 136 more.