112 bars at 201 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-42, silence through bars 43-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-71, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 54-60 and 62-69 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|------------x---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x---x---x-----|8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
201 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
112 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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.
8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 8 more.