225 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare 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 37-41, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 145-151, and 9 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
41 42
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------|o---------------o---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-----------x-------x-x-x-x-|x---------------x---------------|23 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 36, 37 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
185 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
225 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 23 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.
23 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 36, 37 and 33 more.