242 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
71 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 7-10, snare through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-46 and snare through bars 47-70, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 201-207, 209-215 and 217, and 8 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
201 202
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |--------x-------|------------xx--|
T1 |---------------X|----X---X-------|
T2 |--------------X-|----------------|
BD |x---xxxx----xx--|--xxxxxxxxxx----|27 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 15, 16 and 56 more.
It cuts the song into 87 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.
200 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.
71 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.
242 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
27 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 15, 16 and 56 more.