85 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49 and ride through bars 50-51, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17, 42-49 and 69, and 3 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|----------------|
HH |--------o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-------x-----|8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 25, 29, 70, 73, 79 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
85 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 25, 29, 70, 73, 79 and 3 more.