128 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-120 and snare through bars 121-128.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 5 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
23 24
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxoxxxxx|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----|x---x-----x-----|15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 26, 34 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 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.
15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 26, 34 and 27 more.