225 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-30, hi-hat through bars 31-48, ride through bars 49-63, snare through bars 64-76, hi-hat through bars 77-78 and snare through bars 79-80, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-55, 57-62 and 81-87, and 2 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
49 50
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x---x---x-------x---|13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 32, 47, 48, 56, 64 and 19 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.
200 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
225 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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.
13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 32, 47, 48, 56, 64 and 19 more.