186 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-35, silence through bars 36-38, snare through bars 39-55, silence through bars 56-60, toms through bars 61-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-87, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--x--x---------|x--x--x---------|
HH |----------o-o---|----------------|
SD |x--x--x---x-x---|x--x--x-xx------|
T1 |----------------|----------xx----|
FT |----------------|------------xxx-|
BD |--x--x--x-----x-|--x--x---------x|15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
158 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 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 33 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 14, 16 and 27 more.