201 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 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.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, toms through bars 15-38, hi-hat through bars 39-45 and snare through bars 46-48, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-38 and 65-88 -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
15 16
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|----------x-----|
FT |--------------x-|--------------x-|
BD |x-----x---------|----------------|
HF |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 46, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
172 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
201 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 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.
8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 46, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 26 more.