158 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-65, snare through bars 66-77, ride through bars 78-85, silence through bars 86-91 and ride through bars 92-102, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 15 more places -- 34.2% 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-------|
RD |----x---X---x---|----x-------x---|
SD |x-----x-------x-|------x---x-----|
T2 |----------------|------------x-x-|
BD |--x-x-----x-----|x-------x-------|10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 55, 65, 67, 73, 75 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 55, 65, 67, 73, 75 and 15 more.