159 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-27, hi-hat through bars 28-36, snare through bars 37-49, hi-hat through bars 50-58 and snare through bars 59-70, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-28, 31-34 and 47-50, and 1 more place -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
25 26
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |X-----------------------------------------X-----|------------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----x--x--x-----x--x--x-----------|x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------|------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------------------x-----|------x-----x-----------------------------------|6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 46, 118, 130 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
155 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 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.
6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 46, 118, 130 and 3 more.