194 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-48, hi-hat through bars 49-57, ride through bars 58-81, hi-hat through bars 82-97, ride through bars 98-113 and kick and crashes through bars 114-121, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 4 more places -- 24.2% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|x---x-x---x-x---|12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 56, 57, 70, 71 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
156 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
194 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 16, 56, 57, 70, 71 and 27 more.