155 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49 and toms through bars 50-59, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-28, 31-32 and 43-44, and 1 more place -- 6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
27 28
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------------------x-----------|--------x-----------------------|
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|o---------------o-------o-------|
SD |--------------------x-----------|--------x-----------------------|
BD |xxxx----xxxx------------xxxx----|xxxx--------xxxx----xxxx--------|18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 25, 29, 33, 39 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 25, 29, 33, 39 and 26 more.