172 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-17, silence through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-24 and ride through bars 25-40, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 121, 129 and 137, and 1 more place -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
139 140
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|------------x---|
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|------------x---|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x---xxxxxx----|6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 43, 44, 64, 122, 123, 124 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
160 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
172 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 43, 44, 64, 122, 123, 124 and 14 more.