169 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, ride through bars 9-165 and toms through bars 166-169.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 57-63 and 129-135 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x---|x-xxx-x-x-X-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
HF |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 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.
1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167 and 2 more.