209 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-11, ride through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-20 and toms through bars 21-22, and 54 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 114-115, 118-119 and 123-124, and 18 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
114
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |--x---------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x---|
SD |--------------x-----x-----------------x---------|
BD |--x-----------------------------x---------------|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
173 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
209 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22 and 8 more.