215 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-21, ride through bars 22-45, hi-hat through bars 46-53, ride through bars 54-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-89, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-44, 62-68 and 107-113, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
38 39
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |X-X---XXX-X---XX|X-X---XXXXXXXXXX|11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 17, 19, 37, 45, 61, 69 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
164 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
215 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 17, 19, 37, 45, 61, 69 and 25 more.