163 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-14, ride through bars 15-21, snare through bars 22-32, silence through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-52, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 8 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a
CC |x---x-----x-|--x---x-|
SD |x-xx------x-|------x-|
T2 |------XX----|--------|
BD |x---x---xx--|x-x--x--|26 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 58 more.
It cuts the song into 74 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.
162 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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.
26 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 58 more.