92 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-24, hi-hat through bars 25-37, snare through bars 38-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-47, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 70-76 and 80-83 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
70 71
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---------------------------|----------------x---x-----------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o---o---|o-------o---o-----------o---o---|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-----------x---|
BD |x---x-------------------x---x---|------------x-------x---x-------|12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 25, 33, 35 and 11 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.
164 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
92 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 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.
12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 25, 33, 35 and 11 more.