161 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-6, ride through bars 7-10, snare through bars 11-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-50, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20, 23-24 and 27-28, and 6 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
19 20
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------g---------------x-------|g-----------x-------x-------g---|
BD |x-x-x-------------------x-x-x---|------------x-x-x---x-x-x-------|15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 22, 42, 46, 54, 62 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
230 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.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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.
15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 22, 42, 46, 54, 62 and 20 more.