116 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65, toms through bars 66-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-79, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 33-35 and 54-55, and 2 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
25 26
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---------------x-x-----x---|----x-x-----x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|12 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 36, 37, 38 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
159 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 49 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 36, 37, 38 and 43 more.