155 bars at 203 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, ride through bars 27-32, toms through bars 33-34 and ride through bars 35-40, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-29, 31-32 and 35-37, and 13 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
27 28
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---xx--|x---xx--x---x---|7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 10, 26, 50, 66, 90 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
203 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.
76 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 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 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.
7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 10, 26, 50, 66, 90 and 14 more.