138 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-43, snare through bars 44-57, hi-hat through bars 58-82, ride through bars 83-100 and snare through bars 101-114, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 83-89, and 5 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
26 27
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-----x---|----------------|
RD |--------x-x---x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|----------x-----|11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 33, 49, 57, 82, 90, 106 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
170 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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.
11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 33, 49, 57, 82, 90, 106 and 8 more.