155 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-27 and toms through bars 28-39, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-47 and 87-102 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
40 41
1.......2.......3.......4... 1.......2.......3.......4...
CC |x-------x-------x-------x---|x---x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-----------|--------------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-----------x-------|x-----------x-----------x---|14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
160 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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.
14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16 and 24 more.