173 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-24, toms through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-38, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 41-47, and 6 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |x---x---x-x-x---|x-x-x-x---------|
FT |----x---x-x-x---|x-x-x-x---------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx--------|11 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 16, 20, 22 and 39 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.
180 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
173 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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 45 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 16, 20, 22 and 39 more.