140 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-109 and toms through bars 110-140.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 123-138 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
123 124
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
SD |------xx------|------xxxx----|
T1 |--------xx----|------------xx|
T2 |--xx--------xx|--------------|
FT |--------------|--xx----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 49, 50 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
165 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.
69 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.
140 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 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.
8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 49, 50 and 11 more.