122 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, toms through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-29, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-36, 61-67 and 115-121 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
30 31
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-x-------|----------------|
RD |----x-------x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|x-x-----x-x-----|12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
168 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25 and 15 more.