263 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 6:24 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.
silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-13, hi-hat through bars 14-26, ride through bars 27-31, snare through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-41, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 11 more places -- 5.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
37
1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-----------x---|
BD |----x-------x-------x-----------|24 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 20 and 81 more.
It cuts the song into 76 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.
173 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
263 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 21 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.
24 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 20 and 81 more.