160 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, snare through bars 57-80, hi-hat through bars 81-104 and snare through bars 105-112, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 129-143 and 145-158 -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
129 130
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----|----------x-|
BD |xxxxxx----xx|xxx-x-xxxx--|8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 22, 24, 64 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
66 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.
160 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 22, 24, 64 and 9 more.