196 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-64, toms through bars 65-75, silence through bars 76-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-100, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-33 -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
2 3
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------------------------------|------------------------X---X---|
FT |x-----------x-----------x-x-x-x-|x-----------x-------------------|
BD |----x---x-------x---x-----------|----x---x-------x---x-----------|10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 57, 65, 87, 97, 99, 104 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
205 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
196 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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.
10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 57, 65, 87, 97, 99, 104 and 10 more.