169 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 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.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28 and snare through bars 29-30, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-53, 73-79 and 137-143 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
47 48
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---xxxx|
BD |x-x-xx-x--x---x-|x--x--x---x-----|15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
160 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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.
15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 32 more.