145 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-87, silence through bars 88-94, ride through bars 95-102, hi-hat through bars 103-118 and ride through bars 119-136, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-52, 77-79 and 81-86 -- 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
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 32, 55 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
167 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.
6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 24, 32, 55 and 7 more.