174 bars at 203 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-13, silence through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-45, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-53 and 135-150 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
46 47
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x---x-------x---|----x---x-------x---------------|
SD |--------x-------g---x-------x---|g-------x-------x---xx-xx-------|
BD |x---x-------x-----x-----x-------|--x-x-------x---------------x---|17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 16, 20, 21 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
203 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.
77 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.
174 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 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.
17 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 16, 20, 21 and 33 more.