198 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-16, silence through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-43 and toms through bars 44-50, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 62-64, 70-72 and 110-112, and 3 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
62 63
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
SD |------------x---------------x---|------------x---------------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-x-----|--------x-----------x--x-x------|12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 40, 42, 44 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
185 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.
79 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.
198 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 40, 42, 44 and 11 more.