152 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26 and snare through bars 27-28, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42, 46-47 and 50-51, and 4 more places -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
46 47
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------------------x---|--------x-----------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o-------------------|----------------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------f---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-------x---x---x---|--------x---------------x---x---|19 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
170 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 22 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.
19 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.