140 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 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.
ride through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-26, hi-hat through bars 27-44, ride through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-81, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 36-41 and 67-73, and 3 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
29
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-------o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 26, 27, 35, 42, 45 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
170 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 26, 27, 35, 42, 45 and 23 more.