175 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, ride through bars 19-20, toms through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-34, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 59-61, and 5 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
43 44
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x---------x-|x-----------x---x-------|16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 20, 21, 22, 26, 34 and 30 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 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
175 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 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.
16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 20, 21, 22, 26, 34 and 30 more.