224 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-58, 61-62 and 65-66, and 16 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
57 58
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------------------x-------|------------------------x-------|
RD |--------x-------x---------------|x-------x-------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------|--------x-------x-------x-------|13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 37, 38, 39 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
196 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
224 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 7, 8, 32, 37, 38, 39 and 19 more.