178 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-33, snare through bars 34-35, toms through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-39, toms through bars 40-41 and ride through bars 42-47, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 7 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------x---x---|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o---------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x---x---------|14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 25, 29 and 50 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
177 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
178 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.
14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 25, 29 and 50 more.