166 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 3-22, toms through bars 23-38, snare through bars 39-54, hi-hat through bars 55-70, toms through bars 71-72 and snare through bars 73-86, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-53 and 73-84 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
39 40
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------------------x-x-x-------x-----|------x-----------x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 35, 36, 54, 58, 66, 71 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 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 19 times: bars 35, 36, 54, 58, 66, 71 and 13 more.