131 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, toms through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-44, toms through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-69, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 53-59 and 61-67 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
25 26
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x--------------------gg-|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------x-----------------x-----------x-----|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 109 and 110.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
158 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.
72 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.
131 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 109 and 110.