122 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-52, hi-hat through bars 53-68, snare through bars 69-76 and ride through bars 77-108, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-19, 21-34 and 53-60 -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 36 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
180 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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.
11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 36 and 11 more.