179 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 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, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-41, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 6 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
45
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
180 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
14 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 14 more.