163 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-43, ride through bars 44-49, snare through bars 50-51 and ride through bars 52-59, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44, 46-49 and 52, and 7 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
46 47
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-x---x-|8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 45, 50, 51, 53, 89, 94 and 12 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.
160 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.
67 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.
163 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 18 times: bars 45, 50, 51, 53, 89, 94 and 12 more.