168 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-90, toms through bars 91-92, hi-hat through bars 93-94 and snare through bars 95-142, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-44, 46-47 and 50-52, and 5 more places -- 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.
42 43
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |--x-xxxxxxxx--x-|-x--x-x-xx--x--x|18 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 47 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.
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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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.
18 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 47 more.