129 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42 and toms through bars 43-49, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-10, 43-46 and 105-112, and 1 more place -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
3 4
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
SD |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------------------x---x-------------------|
T1 |------------x-----x-----x-----------------------|--------------------------------x---x-----------|
T2 |------------------------------------x-----x-----|----------------------------------------x---x---|
BD |x-----------x--x--x--x--x-----------x--x--x--x--|x-----------x--x--x--x--x---x---x---x---x---x---|6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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.
6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 13 more.