292 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 5:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-38, ride through bars 39-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-62, and 32 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-7, 9-14 and 87-92, and 8 more places -- 17% 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.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------------------x---|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o---------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|x---x-------x-------x-------x---|26 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 1, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 69 more.
It cuts the song into 87 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.
220 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
292 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 29 sittings, about 24 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.
26 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 1, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 69 more.