144 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-43, ride through bars 44-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-69, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49, 52 and 72-74, and 3 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
49
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
163 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 28 more.