101 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 1:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-71, hi-hat through bars 72-81 and ride through bars 82-89, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-5, 75-79 and 90-95 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|------x---gg--x-|10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 15, 22, 23, 24, 28 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
206 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 7, 15, 22, 23, 24, 28 and 13 more.