189 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-24 and silence through bars 25-35, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-67, 69-70 and 73-75, and 5 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
65 66
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---o-------x---x---o-------|x---x---o-------x---x---o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|x---x-----------x-----------x---|11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 37, 38 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
185 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 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.
11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 37, 38 and 17 more.